ROOK
Dictionary entry overview: What does rook mean?
• ROOK (noun)
The noun ROOK has 2 senses:
1. (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
2. common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
Familiarity information: ROOK used as a noun is rare.
• ROOK (verb)
The verb ROOK has 1 sense:
1. deprive of by deceit
Familiarity information: ROOK used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ROOK (noun)
Meaning:
(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
rook; castle
Hypernyms ("rook" is a kind of...):
chess piece; chessman (any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess)
Domain category:
chess; chess game (a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king)
Meaning:
Common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Corvus frugilegus; rook
Hypernyms ("rook" is a kind of...):
corvine bird (birds of the crow family)
Holonyms ("rook" is a member of...):
Corvus; genus Corvus (type genus of the Corvidae: crows and ravens)
• ROOK (verb)
Meaning:
Deprive of by deceit
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
mulct; nobble; rook; scam; swindle; hornswoggle; gyp; goldbrick; gip; diddle; defraud; con; bunco; short-change; victimize
Context examples:
He swindled me out of my inheritance / She defrauded the customers who trusted her / the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change
Hypernyms (to "rook" is one way to...):
cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rook"):
short; short-change (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Sentence example:
They rook him of all his money
