Meaning

noun United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)

noun English theologian (1554-1600)

noun a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets

originUnknown. The "prostitute" sense is the subject of a folk etymology connecting it to General Hooker of the American Civil War, but the earliest known use dates to 1835, decades before the war. Less implausibly, it has also been connected to a coastal feature called a hook (“A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey, Red Hook in New…

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