Snook
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Snook or Snoek may refer to:
- Fishes in the family
- Centropomidae.
- Gempylidae (Snake Mackerels)
- Percidae (Perches)
- Scombridae (Mackerels, tunas, bonitos), subfamily: Scombrinae
- Sphyraenidae (Barracudas)
- Trichiuridae (Cutlassfishes), subfamily: Lepidopinae
- Escoidae
- Muraenesocidae (Pike congers)
- Several other unrelated fishes:
- Bay snook, Petenia splendida.
- Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson.
- Australian barracuda, Sphyraena novaehollandiae.
- Southern sennet, Sphyraena picudilla.
- Snook shark or Caribbean sharpnose shark, Rhizoprionodon porosus.
Snook may also refer to:
- The city of Snook, Texas.
- James H. Snook, convicted murderer, Olympic medalist, and inventor of the snook hook.
- A fictional sloth and the main character in the children's television show It's a Big Big World.
- Snook, a Canadian comedian.
- Snook, a rap group based in Sweden.
- Snook, a ska group based in Temple Terrace, Florida
- A gesture of derision or defiance, as in the idiom, "cock a snook" meaning "thumb one's nose".
- A small, private room of an old Irish pub, originally a place for women to drink and socialize during the time when this behavior would have been inappropriate.