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skyhook

[skahy-hook]

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noun

a fanciful hook imagined to be suspended in the air.

any of various lifting devices, as one hung from a helicopter, designed to lift heavy loads to distances beyond the reach of a jib crane.

a high, arching hook shot in basketball.

Origin:
1910–15; sky + hook¹

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skyhook

"imaginary device to hold things up," 1915, originally aviators' jargon, from sky + hook. Applied from 1935 to actual device for lifting things into the air.

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