rook
/ruk/
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Definition
Noun:
- A common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow: A large, black bird of the crow family (Corvus frugilegus), known for nesting in large colonies.
- (Chess) The piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard: One of the two pieces, also called a castle, that starts the game in the corners of the board.
Verb:
- To deprive of by deceit; to swindle or cheat: To trick someone, especially in a game or financial transaction, in order to obtain something from them.
Examples of Usage
- Noun (Bird):
- A flock of rooks was cawing loudly in the treetops.
- Rooks are often seen foraging in fields.
- Noun (Chess):
- He moved his rook to control the open file.
- Castling involves moving the king and the rook.
- Verb:
- The dishonest trader rooked the tourists by selling fake souvenirs.
- I think we were rooked on the price of that car.
Advanced Usage
- "To rook someone out of something": To cheat someone out of a possession or money.
- The con artist rooked the elderly man out of his life savings.
Variants and Related Words
- Rookery (n): A colony of breeding rooks; a crowded tenement house.
- We visited a noisy rookery in the old oak trees.
- Rooking (n/adj): The act or practice of swindling.
- His rooking schemes were finally exposed.
Synonyms
- Noun (Bird): Crow, corvid.
- Noun (Chess): Castle.
- Verb: Swindle, defraud, cheat, con, fleece, gyp, bilk.
Related Phrases
- "As the crow flies" vs. "As the rook flies": While "as the crow flies" is the standard idiom for a straight-line distance, "as the rook flies" is a less common, chess-inspired variant implying a straight, unobstructed path along ranks or files.
- In chess, the rook moves as the rook flies—straight and true.
Idioms
- "A rook in a crowded nest": (Informal, rare) Used to describe someone in a chaotic or overpopulated situation, drawing on the bird's colonial nesting habits.
- Trying to work in that tiny, busy office felt like being a rook in a crowded nest.
Noun
- common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
Verb
- deprive of by deceit
- He swindled me out of my inheritance
- She defrauded the customers who trusted her
- the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change