The word "hooker" is usable in written English, but it is considered informal and potentially offensive.
It can be used in contexts discussing sex work or in slang, but caution is advised due to its derogatory connotations. Example: "The novel depicted the struggles of a hooker trying to escape her circumstances." Alternatives include "sex worker" or "prostitute."
There was another alarm for the Saints in the last minute when Myler was injured in tackling the Saracens hooker, Jamie George.
Courtney Lawes messed up the Australia hooker Stephen Moore's throw, appearing to knock on in the process, but play continued.
Paul Begalla: About as nervous as a hooker in church.
Moore had a cortisone injection on Sunday in one of the back joints he strained at training last Thursday and which caused him to miss the 25-16 victoverover Wales when the Queensland reds hooker Saia Faingaa found the Welsh captain Matthew Rees such a handful.
Australia are hopeful Stephen Moore, the leading hooker in the world with South Africa's John Smit, will be fit for the weekend.
I spoke to guys, like Mefin Davies [the former Wales hooker] who had played at Leicester, and he had great things to say about the club".
This neighbourhood used to be industrial, then it was heavily drug- and hooker-infested, but today it's all shiny new condos, anchored around an equally new baseball stadium a few blocks away.The supervisor tells me he's been working since 5am, and hasn't been home since Sunday.
Norman Mailer too is on there, even though he brings in a half-hooker doll who dismantles the bulb because there is too much light on their table, which Elaine is not having because these are her five-dollar fixtures from way back, and she tells her to get her ass out and never again to screw around with her light bulbs, which she never does.
The Leemans-Hooker device, by contrast, uses intense pulses of laser light.
The distinguishing feature of the Leemans-Hooker accelerator is the way that it stops the laser's light from dispersing, and so keeps its intensity high enough for it to carry on knocking electrons out of its path.
That microcosmic insight was one of the starting points for modern ecological thinking.In 1843 the idea surfaced again when the botanist Joseph Hooker, son of the director of Kew Gardens, and later their director himself, visited the island on the way back from Antarctica.
