Yes, given the hook from the stage.

And when a student disappeared from class, they were 'hooking' school or playing 'hooky'. Almost as if they'd been Shanghai'd to join a pirate crew.

A whale is still a large target, and one has to hook him to reel him in. (gaffing)

Mistakes that allow others to 'hook' you, are called 'gaffes'.

Letting a drug dealer get his hooks into you, one may become 'hooked' as it means dependency and addiction.

.the shepard's crook in one hand of the pharoah and the flail in the other as 'Mercy/Severity' as dual forms of control. Joachin/Boaz in the masonic iconography as the two towers. (Left hand 'magick vs right hand magick as well).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaz_and_Jachin

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/crooksandflails.htm

.....and so the wolf masquerades as shephard.....when he's really a 'crook' in sheep's clothing......who in the name of strength, 'hooks' dependents, making them addicts and then coming to their rescue as 'supplier'.....of all things that the hookers have hooked for you to 'hook up' with.

'Words/language re-members things long forgotten.'

A saying I was forced to coin after the study of semantics/compared languages.