Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. obsessed with, infatuated with, in love, ‘caught’.

1837		Thackeray Yellowplush Papers Works III (1898) 283: Miss was hooked for certain.
1853		G.J. Whyte-Melville Digby Grand (1890) 227: I think that girl is hooked.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) III 528: I was hooked, although I did not know it. I brushed my hair, and made myself inviting with a desire to please her, without thinking that I was taking the trouble to do so for a woman who was going to be fucked for twenty shillings.
1912		Ade Knocking the Neighbors 70: Father saw that he was Hooked, so he loaded her into a Parlor Car and took her up to a School of Dramatic Art to have her searched for Talent.
1929		W.R. Burnett Little Caesar (1932) 15: Has old Seal Skin got The Greek hooked?
1939		J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 114: She certainly had him hooked, all right.
1943		J.A.W. Bennett ‘Eng. as it is Spoken in N.Z.’ in AS XVIII:2 Apr. 91: There are a large number of words and phrases in common use which one could scarcely classify as confined to, or originating in, New Zealand, but which deserve to be recorded in any attempt to convey something of the flavor of the colloquial speech of the country. Amongst these are [...] to get hooked, to find a girl friend.
1951		D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 95: I’d got five of ’em, including the doc, well hooked on the idea of throwing in for a new stadium.
1954		Hepster’s Dict. 8: On the hook – In love.
1960		‘Lord Buckley’ Hiparama of the Classics 17: The swinging Brutus hath laid a story on you, / That Caesar was hooked for power.
1969		N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 41: But Chuck was obsessive, he was hooked on cars, rock, ginger ale.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 338: You can’t give me what I want. And I’m still fucking hooked on you.
1984		‘Derek Raymond’ He Died with His Eyes Open 37: Even if I gave you money you would only fritter it away on drink or on one of those awful women that you get hooked on.
1994		D. Fallowell One Hot Summer in St Petersburg 171: I am hooked on you as I am hooked on it.
2000		Guardian G2 20 Jan. 9: Cynthia’s bitchy sister, Libby, is so hooked on Taylor that, even when she slides into prostitution, she imagines him in all her clients.
2004		(con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 10/2: We were hooked, and took to grilling anyone [...] who was old enough to hip us to what this sharpie stuff was all about.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 4: We voyeur-vamped America and got her hooked on the shivering shit [i.e. gossip].

2. married.

1914		R. Lardner ‘My Roomy’ in Coll. Short Stories (1941) 342: I’m stickin’ here because o’ that series dough, so’s I can get hooked.
1953		‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 88: ‘I told the boss we were planning to get hooked, so he gave me a week off for the honeymoon’.
1959		A. Anderson ‘Schooldays in North Carolina’ in Lover Man 119: You got to have the right attitude, man, otherwise you’re hooked: wedding ring, bells and all.
1996		(con. 1964-65) B. Thorpe Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 267: ‘Me ’n’ Sal’re gettin’ ’ooked on Sundee arvo’.