Captain Hook

plural Captain Hooks

1. A villain, especially a pirate and especially one with a missing hand that may be replaced with a hook.

   Rise and fall of Abu Hamza: the ‘Captain Hook’ of controversial preachers

   2014 May 8, Paul Crompton and Rajia Aboukheir, “Rise and fall of Abu Hamza: the ‘Captain Hook’ of controversial preachers”, in Al Arabiya, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2026

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   Even that conscientiously crusty Daily Mirror columnist Cassandra, the Captain Hook of Fleet Street, burst into angry tears and published a black-edged In Memoriam notice for Little Lemon.

   1985, Kenneth Allsop, The Angry Decade: A Survey of the Cultural Revolt of the Nineteen-fifties, Goodchild, page 123

   Chest tight, her one hand clenched into a rock hard fist, Gliss stared at the remains. Vampires were not lizards. They didn't regrow limbs. Her hand would not reassemble itself. Shit. She'd be the Captain Hook of vampires. But first. She pointed at her hand with her slowly oozing stump. "TIl remember that. It'll cost you your head."

   2017, David Burton, Blood on the Bayou, By Light Unseen Media

   and you guessed the * Petey said, not at all offended. "Since you're dressed like a pirate, and you seem to like..." Petey paused, then sensed a feeling-thought from Mr. Farmer Bean... "being the Captain Hook of this group."

   2019, Cj Carroll, Petey Punkin' & the B & Brrr Haunted Hotel, page 22