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Crook is a sort of synonym to criminal, thief, or con artist. It basically means someone who, while they maybe don’t commit a crime, do come about their means d
by cgriswald 6y ago
Crook is a sort of synonym to criminal, thief, or con artist. It basically means someone who, while they maybe don’t commit a crime, do come about their means dishonestly. It’s maybe a little old-fashioned these days but not at all unusual.
However, if someone says it and doesn’t know what it means, yeah, they’re probably sharing an emotional viewpoint or repeating someone else’s words or both.
- Clewza313 6y agoI think we all understand what it means, it's just one of those words that had kind of drifted off into obsolescence after Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon.
- cgriswald 6y ago> ...it's just one of those words that had kind of drifted off into obsolescence after Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon. https://news.google.com/search?q=crook&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen https://news.google.com/search?q=crook&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=U... Excluding Crook as a name, it still seems to be in pretty common usage. It seems far more likely there is just regional variation. Most of the articles seem to be either from England or from the east coast. I heard the word in the Midwest all the time, although I can't say I've ever heard anyone on the west coast use the word.