Butcher's hook
The crossword clue "Butcher's hook" is answered by GAFF, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
GAFF
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GAFF answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for GAFF
Every other clue in this collection answered by GAFF, most used first.
- Fishing hook - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Barbed spear. - used 13 times, most recently in 2014
- Fisherman's hook - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
- Hook with a handle - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
- Fish hook - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Fish-landing hook - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Fisherman's handled hook - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Hook for landing large fish - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Iron fishhook - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Butcher's cut - LOIN, used 55 times
- Butcher's stock - MEAT, used 24 times
- Hook helper - SMEE, used 22 times
- Hook hand - SMEE, used 21 times
- Hook henchman - SMEE, used 16 times
- Worm on a hook, e.g. - BAIT, used 16 times
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