left hook

left hook

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Noun

left hook (plural left hooks)

  1. (boxing) A powerful punch thrown with the left hand, typically after a jab or a straight punch.
    Hypernyms: hook < punch, blow
    Coordinate term: right hook
    • 2000, Ken Norton, Marshall Terrill, Mike Fitzgerald, Joe Frazier (contributor), Going the Distance, page 160:
      I hit Stephens with a left hook followed by a looping right hand and a pulverizing left hook that caught him right on the button.
  2. (idiomatic, figurative, occasionally) A surprise assault.
    Just when he thought that the cross-examination was over and he'd parried the questions successfully, one of the lawyers stood up and threw a left hook that left him spluttering.

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