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Definition: Snook |
SnookNoun1. Large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Snook \Snook\, noun. [Dutch snoek.]. (references) |
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Snook is a city located in Burleson County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 568.Geography
Snook is located at 30°29'25" North, 96°28'11" West (30.490162, -96.469804)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.2 km² (2.0 mi²). 5.2 km² (2.0 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 568 people, 221 households, and 160 families residing in the city. The population density is 109.1/km² (282.6/mi²). There are 252 housing units at an average density of 48.4/km² (125.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 75.70% White, 21.13% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.18% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 2.64% from other races, and 0.35% from two or more races. 10.39% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 221 households out of which 37.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.6% are married couples living together, 17.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 27.6% are non-families. 24.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.57 and the average family size is 3.03. In the city the population is spread out with 29.6% under the age of 18, 10.6% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 19.2% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 32 years. For every 100 females there are 90.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 84.3 males. The median income for a household in the city is $34,722, and the median income for a family is $37,656. Males have a median income of $31,528 versus $23,125 for females. The per capita income for the city is $14,965. 16.9% of the population and 14.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 18.9% are under the age of 18 and 11.8% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Snook, Texas."
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They call me Snook, the coochie crook (Save the Last Dance; writing credit: Duane Adler) | |
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 | Neta Snook Southern. Credit: NASA. |  | Measuring "Snook" caught in Torrecillas Lagoon during NMFS Marine Recreational Fishery Statistics Survey. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Indian River Lagoon is in the background of this image. The lagoon is one of the largest lagoons on the east coast of Florida and is prime habitat for Snook and Tarpon. The lagoon waters are estuarine. This image shows Brazilian Pepper stumps to the right of the volunteer's feet. Once the pepper bushes have been cut an herbicide will be applied to kill the bush. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Snook" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 41.94% of the time. "Snook" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 41.94% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (singular) | 35.48% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 19.35% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Unclassified Items | 3.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "snook" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Snook | Last name | 2,000 | 4,764 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Snook, TX (city, FIPS 68576) |
Expressions using "snook": cock a snook at ♦ cock a snook at smb.. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "snook": snook-cocking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "snook"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tallje (banter, derision, dig, fleer, flout, gibe, gird, jeer, jesting, jibe, joke, mock, mockery, pleasantry, quiz, ridicule, satire, scoff, sneer, Snoot, spoof, sport, taunt, twit). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | различни видове тропически риби. (various references) | |
Czech | èichat (sniff), èichání. (various references) | |
Danish | almindelig robalo (common snook). (various references) | |
Dutch | olijfgroene zeesnoek (common snook), olijfgroene snoek (common snook). (various references) | |
Finnish | robalo (common snook). (various references) | |
French | loubine (common snook), \SNO (common snook). (various references) | |
German | Olivgrüner Snook (common snook). (various references) | |
Greek | κοροϊδευτικόσ μορφασμόσ, ψευδολαβράκι της Αμερικής (common snook). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csõrös csuka. (various references) | |
Italian | pseudospigola americana (common snook). (various references) | |
Manx | ordaag rish y troin. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ooksnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | variedades de peixe, falso robalo branco (common snook). (various references) | |
Romanian | tiflã (typhoid). (various references) | |
Russian | длинный нос. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | naziv za mnoge morske ribe, napraviti nekome veliki nos. (various references) | |
Spanish | róbalo blanco (common snook). (various references) | |
Swedish | snook (common snook). (various references) | |
Turkish | zargana benzeri bir balık, nanik. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Centropomus undecimalis, Centropomus undecimalis (Bloch). (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "snook": snooked, snooker, snookered, snookering, snookers, snooking, snooks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "snook" (pronounced snuh"k) |
| 3 | -n uh" k | chinook, nook, schnook. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nooks. | |
| Words within the letters "k-n-o-o-s" | |
-1 letter: nook, sook, soon. | |
-2 letters: kos, noo, nos, ons, son. | |
-3 letters: no, on, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "k-n-o-o-s" | |
+1 letter: kroons, shnook, snooks. | |
+2 letters: kimonos, nookies, schnook, shnooks, snooked, snooker, unhooks. | |
+3 letters: bonnocks, bookends, bookings, boomkins, bowknots, chinooks, convokes, cookings, coonskin, dornocks, folksong, hooknose, inkwoods, kilotons, nainsook, nonbooks, omikrons, rockoons, schnooks, snookers, snooking, songbook, spooking, stooking, topknots, woolskin. | |
+4 letters: bankbooks, bobolinks, bonteboks, boondocks, convokers, coonskins, doorknobs, folksongs, foreknows, gooseneck, handbooks, hoodwinks, hooknoses, hornbooks, hymnbooks, ironworks, kakemonos, kangaroos, kenotrons, kinghoods, kingwoods, knockoffs, knockouts, knotholes, komondors, kookiness, lockdowns, lookdowns, makimonos, monkhoods, monkshood, moonwalks, nainsooks, nonkosher, nonsmoker, notebooks, onionskin, onlookers, openworks, outspoken, pinkroots, saskatoon, skidooing, snakeroot, snookered, solonchak, songbooks, stinkwood, stonework, tokonomas, townsfolk, unbookish, woolskins, yokozunas. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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