A brief, punchyopeningstatement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
(cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontalarc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
(software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more easily.
(golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice, fade
(basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
(boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc.
(Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
(slang, dated) A measurement of alcohol without definite amounts, meaning the same thing as a "slug" (of gin), an overlarge gulp. Used from the 1920s through the 1940s.
(archaic, thieves' cant) A thief who uses a pole with a hook on the end to steal goods.