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Verb
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rooks, plural;
  1. Take money from (someone) by cheating, defrauding, or overcharging them

Noun
  1. A chess piece, typically with its top in the shape of a battlement, that can move in any direction along a rank or file on which it stands. Each player starts the game with two rooks at opposite ends of the first rank

  1. castle: (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
  2. victimize: 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"
  3. common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
  4. Rook is the fifth studio album by American indie rock band Shearwater. It was released on June 3, 2008, on the Matador Records label. The track "Rooks" was the first single from the album. ...
  5. The Rook (Corvus frugilegus) is a member of the Corvidae family in the passerine order of birds. Named by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, the species name frugilegus is Latin for "food-gathering".
  6. Rook is a trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards. Sometimes referred to as "Christian cards" or "missionary poker", Rook playing cards were introduced by Parker Brothers in 1906 to provide an alternative to standard playing cards for those in the Puritan tradition or ...
  7. A rook (borrowed from Persian رخ rokh, Sanskrit रथ rath, "chariot") is a piece in the strategy board game of chess. In the past the piece was called the castle, tower, marquess, rector, and comes . The old-fashioned term "castle" is technically incorrect. ...
  8. The Rook is a time-traveling comic book character whose adventures were chronicled in various issues of Eerie magazine published by Warren Publishing in the 1970s and 80s, before getting his own title. He was created by writer Bill DuBay.
  9. Rookie is a term for a person who is in his or her first year of play of their sport or has little or no professional experience. The term also has the more general meaning of anyone new to a profession, training or activity (e.g. ...
  10. A rook is the name for a piercing on the antihelix of the ear. The rook piercing tends to be much more painful due to the large amounts of cartilage tissue (soft spot) through which the needle passes. It will normally migrate a bit, as every piercing eventually does, before settling down.
  11. Rook is the name of a British rocket. Twenty five Rook rockets were launched between 1959 and 1972. The launches took place from Aberporth in Wales and from Woomera in South Australia. The Rook has a maximum flight altitude of 20 kilometres, a launch mass of 1.2 tons and a length of 5 metres.
  12. Rook is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes.
  13. (The Rooks (Farthing Wood)) The Rooks are fictional characters in the Colin Dann series The Animals of Farthing Wood. They were the inhabitants of a copse in which the animals sheltered.
  14. A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family; A swindler; someone who betrays; a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name; To cheat or swindle
  15. (Rooks) Someone who has great knowledge about the sport of Rugby League.
  16. (Rooks) Pieces used in the game of Chess.
  17. A rook in heraldry is the bird of that name common in Great Britain. It resembles the crow, but is smaller. When the piece in chess known as a rook is borne, it is blazoned a chess-rook. ...
  18. 1. swindler; cheat. 2. an act of cheating; a swindle. 3. to swindle or cheat.
  19. The piece that looks like and is sometimes called a castle. This can be confusing, because "castle," in chess, is a verb.
  20. A species of chessman. Can participate in castling with the king.
  21. This is a unit of vis equal to ten pawns.
  22. A rook (Corvus frugilegus) is a crow-like bird. In chess, however, they're shaped like castles. The inventors of the rook were probably smoking crack.
  23. The most valuable piece besides the queen. The rook moves in straight lines and is particularly powerful in the endgame.