Green’s Dictionary of Slang

tricked, fooled, deceived, ensnared; usu. in the context of a confidence trick or blackmail.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Hookt, over-reached.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p: hooked over reached, tricked, caught, simile taken from fishing.
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1821		‘An Amateur’ Real Life in London I 218: The odds were almost a cornucopia to a cabbage-net that Bob would be hook’d.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1843–44		Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1995) 455: ‘Is he hooked, do you think?’ whispered Crimple.
1853		G.J. Whyte-Melville Digby Grand (1890) 23: What a flat Grand was, to be hooked by such a flirt as that!
1902		E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 79: If she ’s afraid Whiskers will get hooked, why don’t Miss Fannie let Mr. Paul get hooked, and call it a draw?
1920		Ade Hand-made Fables 69: [They] still have the Idea firmly set in their Cokes that running a Whizzer or whooping before the Draw is a legitimate Pastime and Nobody’s Business, except the Ike that gets hooked.
1939		Howsley Argot: Dict. of Und. Sl.
1947		J. Maclaren-Ross ‘The Dark Diceman’ in Bitten by the Tarantula (2005) 207: I think I got someone hooked for that beauty parlour scheme: a steamer, a mug, see?
1959		C. Himes Crazy Kill 97: I know he wasn’t lying [...] I had him hooked.
1989		T. Blacker Fixx 210: I felt sorry for the man, well and truly hooked as he was.
1992		Eble Campus Sl. Apr. 5: hook – cheat, usually in a game. ‘I got hooked by that umpire.’.