Usually means: Nose with a prominent curve.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word hooknose:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. hooknose: Merriam-Webster
  2. hooknose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. hooknose: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hooknose: Vocabulary.com
  5. hooknose: Wiktionary
  6. hooknose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. hooknose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. hooknose: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. hooknose: Dictionary.com
  10. Hooknose: Rhymezone
  11. hooknose: FreeDictionary.org
  12. hooknose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. hooknose: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hooknose: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hooknose (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. hooknose: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. hooknose: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hooknose)

▸ noun:  An aquiline nose.
▸ noun:  Someone with such a nose; stereotypically a jew.
▸ noun:  A fish, the armed bullhead.

Similar:
Roman nose, shortnose, nasal, whipnose, needle-nose gar, sharpnose, long-nose, flatnose catshark, oxyrhynchus, hornbeak, more...

Opposite:
straight nose, Romnose, aquiline nose

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Similar:
Roman nose, shortnose, nasal, whipnose, needle-nose gar, sharpnose, long-nose, flatnose catshark, oxyrhynchus, hornbeak, more...

Opposite:
straight nose, Romnose, aquiline nose



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