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Noun rook has 2 senses
- castle, rook - (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
--1 is a kind of chessman, chess piece
- rook, Corvus frugilegus - common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
--2 is a kind of corvine bird
--2 is a member of Corvus, genus Corvus
Verb rook has 1 sense
- victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con - 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"
--1 is one way to cheat, rip off, chisel
Sample sentence:
They rook him of all his money
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