skyhook

1. A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.

   Skyhook

   a hook that is imagined to be suspended from the sky

2. An overhead winch.

3. A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.

   Skyhook

   helicopter carrying a reel of steel cable that can be used to lift and transport heavy objects

4. A proposed momentum-exchange tether for launching payloads into low Earth orbit by hooking them to the end of a cable that reaches down from an orbiting station into the upper atmosphere.

5. (slang)A CB radio antenna.

6. A form of the overhead smash in which the eastern grip is used to hit the ball farther behind the body than usually possible.

7. A small hook for gripping small and slippery protrusions.

8. A device covering the rider's boot and sometimes screwed to the board, to facilitate jumping and enhance stability.

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