lunch hook

noun

A person's hand.

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Meanings

nounlunch hook (plural lunch hooks)

plural lunch hooks

  1. slangA person's hand.

    It was a question of move, and move damn quick. He'd got a flare pistol in his lunch hook when I fell on him, and your little crowd would have looked pretty if he'd let it off.

    1918, Herman Cyril McNeile, The Human Touch
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APA

lunch hook. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunch%20hook

MLA

“lunch hook.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunch%20hook. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lunch hook,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunch%20hook.

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