hook eared
Heaving been purposely given an ear worm by someone else with the sole intent of leaving a song stuck in your head. If you've been hook eared you've taken the ear worm bait!
Colleague keeps dropping lines from a song into conversation throughout the day.
At the end of the day you're whistling the tune, and realise you've been hook eared.
*Colleague twists moustache like an old timey movie villain.*
At the end of the day you're whistling the tune, and realise you've been hook eared.
*Colleague twists moustache like an old timey movie villain.*
ear hook
Pronounced "err hook" as in the St. Louis regional dialect. Meaning is equivalent to eavesdropping with an added level of removal. Used primarily by African-American females when discussing social distrust.
"Girl u know u err hookin' when u done listened to ma conversation and still got it wrong!"