Crook is slang for

criminal In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a State (polity), state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definiti ...

. Crook or Crooks may also refer to:

Places

Canada

* Crooks Inlet, former name of Kangiqturjuaq, Nunavut

England

Crook, County Durham Crook is a market town in the Durham County Council unitary authority and ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is located on the edge of Weardale and sometimes referred to as the "Gateway to Weardale". Crook lies about south-west ...

, a town * Crook, Cumbria, a village and civil parish * Crook Hill, Derbyshire

United States

Crook, Colorado The Town of Crook is a Statutory Town in Logan County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 133 at the 2020 United States census. Crook is a part of the Sterling, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. Toponymy The town was named fo ...

, a Statutory Town * Crook Township, Hamilton County, Illinois * Crooks Township, Renville County, Minnesota * Crook, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Crook County, Oregon * Crook City, South Dakota, a populated place and census-designated place also known as Crook *

Crooks, South Dakota Crooks is a city in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States and is a suburb of Sioux Falls. The population was 1,362 at the 2020 census. Crooks was named New Hope until 1904. The town's present name honors W. A. Crooks, a local politicia ...

, a city *

Crook County, Wyoming Crook County is a County (United States), county in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 7,181, making it the third-least populous county in Wyoming. Its county seat and la ...

* Crook National Forest, Arizona, divided into three other national forests in 1953 *

Crook Glacier Crook Glacier is located in the U.S. state of Oregon. The glacier is situated in the Cascade Range at an elevation between , nestled within a cirque to the immediate south of Broken Top, an extinct stratovolcano. References See also * List of ...

, Oregon * Crooks Mound, an archaeological site in Louisiana * Fort Crook (California) (1857–1869), near Fall River Mills, California *

Fort Crook, Nebraska Crook is slang for criminal In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a State (polity), state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farm ...

(1891–1946), near Omaha, Nebraska

People

* Crook (surname) * Crooks (surname)

Films

* '' The Crook'', English title of ''Le voyou'', a 1971 French movie * ''Crook'' (film), a 2010 Hindi thriller film * '' C(r)ook'', a 2004 Austrian film

Television

* ''Crooks'' (TV series), a 2024 German television series

Buildings

* Crook Hall, a former Roman Catholic seminary near Consett, County Durham * Crook Hall, Durham, a grade I listed house in Framwelgate, Durham *

Crook Inn The Crook Inn is an inn in the Scottish Borders, near the village of Tweedsmuir on the A701 road between Broughton and Moffat. It is one of many claimants to be the oldest inn in Scotland. It was licensed in 1604. Robert Burns wrote "Willie Wast ...

, an inn in the Scottish Borders

Other uses

* A

bocal A bocal or crook is a curved, tapered tube, which is an integral part of certain woodwind instruments. These include double reed instruments such as the bassoon, contrabassoon, English horn, and oboe d'amore, as well as the larger recorders. In ...

, the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument *

Crook (music) A crook, also sometimes called a shank, is an exchangeable segment of tubing in a natural horn (or other brass instrument, such as a natural trumpet) which is used to change the length of the pipe, altering the fundamental pitch and harmonic seri ...

, exchangeable section of a brass instrument * Crook, the

crozier A crozier or crosier (also known as a paterissa, pastoral staff, or bishop's staff) is a stylized staff that is a symbol of the governing office of a bishop or abbot and is carried by high-ranking prelates of Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholi ...

carried by a bishop or abbot *

Shepherd's crook A shepherd's crook is a long and sturdy stick with a hook at one end, often with the point flared outwards, used by a shepherd to manage and sometimes catch sheep. In addition, the crook may aid in defending against attack by predators. Wh ...

* An angled stem used in securing a laid Devon hedge * Baron Crook, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom * Crooks Covered Bridge, southeast of Rockville, Indiana, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places