How to pronounce “skyhook”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
• An overhead winch.
• A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.
• (astronautics) 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.
• (slang) A CB radio antenna.
• (tennis) A form of the overhead smash in which the eastern grip is used to hit the ball farther behind the body than usually possible.
• (climbing) A small hook for gripping small and slippery protrusions.
• (board sports) A device covering the rider's boot and sometimes screwed to the board, to facilitate jumping and enhance stability.

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