Rook

English

Noun

Rook (plural Rooks)

1. A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
2. A swindler; someone who betrays.
3. (UK) a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.

Synonyms

• (swindler): swindler, cheat

Hypernyms

• (bird): bird
• (firecracker): firecracker

Verb

Rook (third-person singular simple present Rooks, present participle Rooking, simple past and past participle Rooked)

1. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.

Synonyms

• (cheat, swindle): cheat, con, do, dupe, have, swindle

Noun

Rook (plural Rooks)

1. (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
2. (rare) A castle or other fortification.
3. An Amish card game.

Synonyms

• (chesspiece): castle

See also

• (chess pieces) chessman, chess piece, chess piece, chesspiece; bishop, castle/rook, king, knight, pawn, queen ^{(Category: en:Chess) [edit]}

Noun

Rook (plural Rooks)

1. (baseball, slang) A rookie.

Verbs for Rook

—builds; —caws; —clamors; —flocks; — jangle; —mounts; —plunders; —pours forth; — quarrel; — swarm; —torments; — wrangle.

Thesaurus

beat, beguile of, bilk, bishop, bleed, bunco, burn, castle, cheat, chessman, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, defraud, diddle, do in, do out of, euchre, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, king, knight, man, milk, mulct, pack the deal, pawn, piece, pigeon, practice fraud upon, queen, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, shave, shortchange, stack the cards, stick, sting, sweat, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight, victimize

Pronunciation

• IPA: /rʊk/
• Rhymes: -ʊk