noun
- S-shaped hooks used for hanging pots over a fire
- crude or illegible handwriting resembling the shape of pot hooks
Usage: informal
Examples
- The blacksmith forged several pothooks for the kitchen fireplace.
- Grandmother used pothooks to suspend her cooking pot over the flames.
- The old cabin had rusty pothooks hanging from the chimney crane.
- The teacher couldn’t read the student’s pothooks on the test paper.
- His signature looked like pothooks and was barely recognizable.
- She complained that her handwriting resembled pothooks after writing quickly.