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'Crook' can refer to the following:

★ 'Crooking' is a verb to refer to the action of creating a bend or curve; for example, crooking a finger. Hence a 'crook' may be anything that is crooked.

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★ Specifically, a crook is a tool with a crook in it, such as a shepherd's staff or prelate's crosier; see also flail and crook.

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★ Crook (music), a length of tubing used to change the pitch of a natural horn or other brass instrument; by removing one crook of a given length and replacing it with a crook of another, the entire pitch of the instrument would change. A crook is also the term for a bent or curved pipe that connects the reed to the instrument body on some double reed instruments; in American usage this is generally called a bocal. Musicians who play the natural horn (the predecessor to the modern horn) use crooks to change the instrument into different keys. These are pieces of tubing that are inserted into the horn to change its length.

★ 'Crook', a slang term for a criminal or a person of questionable morality. Specifically it refers to someone who is corrupt and uses dishonest or unethical tactics to gain money. The adjective 'crooked' can refer to such persons or actions. This version of the term may also be archaically used as a verb in reference to becoming a criminal or causing another to become a criminal.

★ Biblically, "crooked" meant "twisted", "corrupt", or "not straight".

★ 'Crooked Music' (Schräge Musik) was a very effective firing system developed by the Germans in World War II which allowed their fighter aircraft to shoot down Allied bombers.

★ In Australian slang, 'crook' (adjective) means unwell (amongst other meanings).

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Places

★ Crook, County Durham, England

★ Crook, Cumbria, England

★ Crook, Devon, England

★ Crook, Crook of Devon, Scotland

★ Crook, Colorado, United States

★ Crook County, Oregon, United States

Persons

★ Ann Marie Crooks, a female bodybuilder and professional wrestler

★ George Crook, an American general

★ Mackenzie Crook, a British actor

Things

★ Crook can refer to the crozier carried by a bishop or abbot

★ Shepherd's staff