Crook is slang for

criminal In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a State (polity), state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definiti ...

. Crook or Crooks may also refer to:

Places

Canada

* Crooks Inlet, former name of Kangiqturjuaq, Nunavut

England

Crook, County Durham Crook is a market town in the Durham County Council unitary authority and ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is located on the edge of Weardale and sometimes referred to as the "Gateway to Weardale". Crook lies about south-west ...

, a town *

Crook, Cumbria Crook is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, on the B5284 road between Kendal and Windermere. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 340, increasing at the 2011 census to 364, and decreasing at the 2021 census to 350. ...

, a village and civil parish *

Crook Hill Crook Hill is a small hill in the Peak District National Park in the English county of Derbyshire, north east of Castleton. Overview The hill is situated above the A57 Snake Pass road between Sheffield and Manchester as it passes Ladybo ...

, Derbyshire

United States

Crook, Colorado The Town of Crook is a Statutory Town in Logan County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 133 at the 2020 United States census. Crook is a part of the Sterling, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. Toponymy The town was named fo ...

, a Statutory Town * Crook Township, Hamilton County, Illinois * Crooks Township, Renville County, Minnesota * Crook, Missouri, an unincorporated community *

Crook County, Oregon Crook County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 24,738. The county seat is Prineville. The county is named after George Crook, a U.S. Army officer who served in the American Civi ...

Crook City, South Dakota Crook City (also known as Camp Crook II or simply Crook) is a populated place in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 132 at the 2020 census. It became a census-designated place prior to the 2020 census. Crook City wa ...

, a populated place and census-designated place also known as Crook *

Crooks, South Dakota Crooks is a city in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States and is a suburb of Sioux Falls. The population was 1,362 at the 2020 census. Crooks was named New Hope until 1904. The town's present name honors W. A. Crooks, a local politicia ...

, a city *

Crook County, Wyoming Crook County is a County (United States), county in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 7,181, making it the third-least populous county in Wyoming. Its county seat and la ...

Crook National Forest Crook National Forest was established in Arizona by the U.S. Forest Service on July 1, 1908, with from portions of Tonto National Forest, Mount Graham National Forest, and other lands. On July 1, 1953, Crook was divided among Tonto, Gila, and Co ...

, Arizona, divided into three other national forests in 1953 *

Crook Glacier Crook Glacier is located in the U.S. state of Oregon. The glacier is situated in the Cascade Range at an elevation between , nestled within a cirque to the immediate south of Broken Top, an extinct stratovolcano. References See also * List of ...

, Oregon *

Crooks Mound Crooks Mound () ( 16 LA 3) is a large Marksville culture archaeological site located in La Salle Parish in south central Louisiana. It is a large, conical burial mound that was part of at least six episodes of burials. It measured about and . It ...

, an archaeological site in Louisiana *

Fort Crook (California) Fort Crook was a U. S. Army post, first established as Camp Hollenbush in 1857, in Shasta County, California, northeast of Fall River Mills, California. The Fort Crook Museum covers its history. History Camp Hollenbush was established by Captain J ...

(1857–1869), near Fall River Mills, California *

Fort Crook, Nebraska Crook is slang for criminal In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a State (polity), state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farm ...

(1891–1946), near Omaha, Nebraska

People

Crook (surname) Crook is surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname * A. R. Crook (1864–1930), American geologist * Al Crook (''Alfred John Crook''; 1897–1958), American football player * Alan Crook (1897–1965), Australian electrical engineer ...

Crooks (surname) Crooks is an English language, English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Crooks (activist) (1824–1874), Wesleyan Methodist * Adam Crooks (politician) (1827–1885), Canadian politician * Ann Marie Crooks (born 1965), female ...

Films

* ''

The Crook ''Le Voyou'', also known as ''The Crook'', is a 1970 French cinema, French action film which follows Simon the Swiss during his largest Robbery, heist. Directed by Claude Lelouch in 1970 in film, 1970, and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, the film ...

'', English title of ''Le voyou'', a 1971 French movie * ''Crook'' (film), a 2010 Hindi thriller film * ''

C(r)ook C, or c, is the third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''cee'' (pronounced ), plural ''cees''. History "C" ...

'', a 2004 Austrian film

Television

* ''Crooks'' (TV series), a 2024 German television series

Buildings

Crook Hall Crook Hall, sited near Lanchester, County Durham, some north west of the city of Durham, was the seat of the Baker family and one of two Roman Catholic seminaries which temporarily replaced the Douai seminary in Douai, France when that college wa ...

, a former Roman Catholic seminary near Consett, County Durham *

Crook Hall, Durham Crook Hall is a Grade I listed house built in the 13th or 14th to 18th centuries, located in the Framwelgate area of the City of Durham. The oldest part is an open hall house dating from the 13th or 14th century, built in sandstone with a We ...

, a grade I listed house in Framwelgate, Durham *

Crook Inn The Crook Inn is an inn in the Scottish Borders, near the village of Tweedsmuir on the A701 road between Broughton and Moffat. It is one of many claimants to be the oldest inn in Scotland. It was licensed in 1604. Robert Burns wrote "Willie Wast ...

, an inn in the Scottish Borders

Other uses

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bocal A bocal or crook is a curved, tapered tube, which is an integral part of certain woodwind instruments. These include double reed instruments such as the bassoon, contrabassoon, English horn, and oboe d'amore, as well as the larger recorders. In ...

, the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument *

Crook (music) A crook, also sometimes called a shank, is an exchangeable segment of tubing in a natural horn (or other brass instrument, such as a natural trumpet) which is used to change the length of the pipe, altering the fundamental pitch and harmonic seri ...

, exchangeable section of a brass instrument * Crook, the

crozier A crozier or crosier (also known as a paterissa, pastoral staff, or bishop's staff) is a stylized staff that is a symbol of the governing office of a bishop or abbot and is carried by high-ranking prelates of Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholi ...

carried by a bishop or abbot *

Shepherd's crook A shepherd's crook is a long and sturdy stick with a hook at one end, often with the point flared outwards, used by a shepherd to manage and sometimes catch sheep. In addition, the crook may aid in defending against attack by predators. Wh ...

* An angled stem used in securing a laid

Devon hedge A Devon hedge, also known as a Devon hedgebank, consist of a rubble or earth bank that is usually topped with bushy shrubs forming a hedgerow, with trees also being a frequent and noticeable feature.Devon's Hedges (1997), p.1. The bank may be fac ...

* Baron Crook, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom * Crooks Covered Bridge, southeast of Rockville, Indiana, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places