crook - Definition | Dictionary definition of crook

Definition of crook

Nouns

someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

Synonyms:: criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw

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United States outlaw who was said to have killed 21 men (1859-1881); Jesse James
United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882); Robert MacGregor
Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734); Guy Fawkes
English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606); Titus Oates
English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705); Alphonse Capone
United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947); Jack the Ripper
an unidentified English murderer in the 19th century; John Wilkes Booth
United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865); Lee Harvey Oswald
United States assassin of President John F. Kennedy (1939-1963); Dick Turpin
English highwayman (1706-1739); Jean Laffite
French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826); Sir Henry Morgan
a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688); Bartholomew Roberts
a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722); Edward Thatch
an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718); Khayr ad-Din
Barbary pirate (died in 1546); Benedict Arnold
United States general and traitor in the American Revolution; in 1780 his plan to surrender West Point to the British was foiled (1741-1801)

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someone who helps another person commit a crime; abetter, abettor
one who helps or encourages or incites another; accessory after the fact
a person who gives assistance or comfort to someone known to be a felon or known to be sought in connection with the commission of a felony; accessory before the fact
a person who procures or advises or commands the commission of a felony but who is not present at its perpetration; accessory during the fact
a person who witnesses a crime but does not try to prevent it; collaborator, confederate, henchman, partner in crime
someone who assists in a plot; arsonist, firebug, incendiary
a criminal who illegally sets fire to property; barnburner
someone who burns down a barn; blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist
a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them; bootlegger, moonshiner
someone who makes or sells illegal liquor; briber, suborner
someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act; coconspirator, conspirator, machinator, plotter
a member of a conspiracy; desperado, desperate criminal
a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier); fugitive, fugitive from justice
someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice; absconder
a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution; escapee
someone who escapes; gangster, mobster
a criminal who is a member of gang; apache
a Parisian gangster; yakuza
a Japanese gangster; yardie
member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence; highbinder
a corrupt politician; highjacker, hijacker
someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination; goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie
an aggressive and violent young criminal; bully
a hired thug; gaolbird, jail bird, jailbird
a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly; abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper, snatcher
someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom); crimp, crimper
someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers; seizer, shanghaier
a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship; mafioso
a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States; gangster's moll, gun moll, moll
the girlfriend of a gangster; liquidator, manslayer, murderer
a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being); assassin, assassinator, bravo
a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; butcher
a brutal indiscriminate murderer; cutthroat
someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat; fratricide
a person who murders their brother or sister; gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman
a professional killer who uses a gun; hatchet man, iceman
a professional killer; infanticide
a person who murders an infant; mass murderer
a person who is responsible for the deaths of many victims in a single incident; murderess
a woman murderer; parricide
someone who kills his or her parent; ripper
a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife; serial killer, serial murderer
someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval; parolee, probationer
someone released on probation or on parole; drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler, pusher
an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs; racketeer
someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion); bagman
a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money; raper, rapist
someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse; habitual criminal, recidivist, repeater
someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior); scofflaw
one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses; contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser, runner, smuggler
someone who imports or exports without paying duties; coyote
someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually across the Mexican border); arms-runner, gunrunner
a smuggler of guns; rumrunner
someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border; stealer, thief
a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it; bandit, brigand
an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band; booster, lifter, shoplifter
a thief who steals goods that are in a store; burglar
a thief who enters a building with intent to steal; dacoit, dakoit
a member of an armed gang of robbers; defalcator, embezzler, peculator
someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use; body snatcher, ghoul, graverobber
someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection; graverobber
someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts; holdup man, stickup man
an armed thief; larcener, larcenist
a person who commits larceny; cutpurse, dip, pickpocket
a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places; literary pirate, pirate, plagiariser, plagiarist, plagiarizer
someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own; despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler
someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war); robber
a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence; cattle thief, rustler
someone who steals livestock (especially cattle); cracksman, safebreaker, safecracker
a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents; snatcher
a thief who grabs and runs; pilferer, sneak thief, snitcher
a thief who steals without using violence; traitor, treasonist
someone who betrays his country by committing treason; collaborationist, collaborator, quisling
someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force; fifth columnist, saboteur
a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader; traitress
female traitor; law offender, lawbreaker, violator
someone who violates the law