Crook is another name for
criminal
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Ca ...
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Crook or Crooks may also refer to:
Places
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Crook, County Durham, England, a town
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Crook, Cumbria, England, village and civil parish
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Crook Hill, Derbyshire, England
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Crook, Colorado, United States, a Statutory Town
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Crook Township, Hamilton County, Illinois, United States
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Crooks Township, Renville County, Minnesota, United States
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Crook, Missouri
Crook is an unincorporated community in Osage County, in the U.S. state of Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by ar ...
, an unincorporated community
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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 Civ ...
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Crook County, Wyoming
Crook County is a county in the northeastern section 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 is Sundance.
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, United States
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Crook City, South Dakota, United States, a populated place also known as Crook
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Crooks, South Dakota, United States, a city
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Crook National Forest, Arizona, United States, divided into three other national forests in 1953
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Crook Glacier, Oregon, United States
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Crooks Mound, an archaeological site in Louisiana, United States
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Crooks Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
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Fort Crook (disambiguation)
Surnames
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Crook (surname) Crook is an Old Norse surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*A. R. Crook (1864–1930), American geologist
*Al Crook (''Alfred John Crook''; 1897–1958), American football player
*Alan Crook (1897–1965), Australian electrical engine ...
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Crooks (surname)
Films
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The Crook'', English title of ''Le voyou'', a 1971 French movie
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''Crook'' (film), a 2010 Hindi thriller film
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C(r)ook
C, or c, is the third letter in 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
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2004 Austrian film
Other uses
* A
bocal
A bocal is a curved, tapered tube, which is an integral part of certain woodwind instruments, including double reed instruments such as the bassoon, contrabassoon, English horn, and oboe d'amore, as well as the larger recorders. In the double ...
, the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument
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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 se ...
, exchangeable section of a brass instrument
* Crook, the
crozier
A crosier or crozier (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 Cathol ...
carried by a bishop or abbot
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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 f ...
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Baron Crook
Baron Crook, of Carshalton in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 3 July 1947 for Reginald Crook, later Chairman of the National Dock Labour Board. the title is held by his grandson, the thi ...
, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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Crook Hall
Crook Hall, sited near Lanchester, County Durham, some north west of the city of Durham, was one of two Roman Catholic seminaries which temporarily replaced the Douai seminary in Douai, France when that college was suppressed soon after the Frenc ...
, a former Roman Catholic seminary near Consett, County Durham
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Crook Inn, an inn in the Scottish Borders
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Crooks Covered Bridge, southeast of Rockville, Indiana, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places
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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 Wel ...
, a grade I listed house in Framwelgate, Durham
See also
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Crooked (disambiguation)
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Crookes (disambiguation)
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