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Definition of By hook or by crook
1. Adverb. In any way necessary. "I'll pass this course by hook or by crook"
Definition of By hook or by crook
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) By any means possible; one way or another. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of By Hook Or By Crook
Literary usage of By hook or by crook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1880)
"Is not "by hook or by crook " simply an old law term, and does it not refer to
... I hold the estate by hook or by crook, that is, I hold every field of it. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1850)
"I imagine that the expression " by hook or by crook " is in very general use
throughout England. It was familiar to my ear forty years ago in Surrey, ..."
3. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1916)
"He must be got rid of "by hook or by crook." We introduce these letters, gentlemen,
not simply to support the testimony of Carawan Sawyer, but as a distinct ..."
4. The Antiquity of Proverbs: Fifty Familiar Proverbs and Folk Sayings with by Dwight Edwards Marvin (1922)
"It was natural therefore to speak of human destiny as settled "by hook or by crook."
Second—After the great fire in London, 1666, which obliterated most ..."
5. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas F. Byrnes (1892)
"... A Mean and Contemptible Lot — Running with the Hare and Hunting with the
Hounds — Getting a Living by Hook or by Crook — Shyster Lawyers — Quack Doctors ..."
6. Tricolored Sketches in Paris: During the Years 1851-2-3 by Frank Boott Goodrich (1855)
"TRAIT OF LOUIS NAPOLEON—by hook or by crook. Sept. IHh, 1831. AN extraordinary
article has appeared in Le Pays. It is from the pen of the editor-in-chief, ..."
7. The Etymological Compendium, Or, Portfolio of Origins and Inventions by William Pulleyn (1830)
"by hook or by crook: Judges Crook and Hutton, were the two judges (says Butler,
in his Hudibras) who dissented from their ten brethren, in the case of ship- ..."
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