Snook

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Snook, Snooks, or Snoek may refer to:

Fishes

• Family Centropomidae (snooks)
  • Common snook
• Family Esocidae (pikes)
  • Haplochromis insidiae
  • Northern pike
• Family Gempylidae (snake mackerels)
  • Blacksail snake mackerel or black snoek
  • Thyrsites
• Family Muraenesocidae (pike congers)
  • Pike eel
• Family Percidae (perches)
• Family Scombridae (mackerels, tunas, bonitos), subfamily: Scombrinae
  • Kanadi kingfish
  • Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson
• Barracuda
  • Australian barracuda, Sphyraena novaehollandiae
• Cutlassfish
  • Silver scabbardfish
• Petenia splendida, bay snook
• Southern sennet, Sphyraena picudilla
• Snook shark or Caribbean sharpnose shark, Rhizoprionodon porosus

Places

• Rancho San Bernardo (Snook), a Mexican land grant in present-day San Diego County, California
• Snook, Texas

People

Surname

• Snoek (surname)
• Frank Snook (born 1949), Major League Baseball player
• Gary Snook (born 1947), Western Australian Legislative Assembly member
• George Snook (1842–1894), President of the Chico Board of Trustees, the governing body of Chico, California from 1885 to 1886 and from 1892 to 1894
• Graeme Snooks (born 1944), Australian systems theorist
• Hans Snook (born 1948), German-Canadian businessman
• Ian Snook (born 1950), New Zealand cricketer
• James H. Snook (1879–1930), convicted murderer, Olympic medalist, and inventor of the snook hook
• Jeff Snook (born 1960), American sportswriter
• John B. Snook (1815–1901), American architect
• John S. Snook (1862–1952), U.S. Representative from Ohio
• Laine Snook (born 1968), English athlete
• Larry Snook (born 1941), U.S. Army officer and judge
• Neta Snook (1896–1991), American aviator
• Ronald Snook (born 1972), Australian rower
• Sarah Snook (born 1987), Australian actress
• Verity Snook-Larby (born 1970), English race walker
• Robert Snooks (1761–1802), English highwayman
• Tom Snooks (1890–1958), Australian showman and developer
• Zoon Van Snook, Belgian-English composer

Given name, nickname, or stage name

• Snook (comedian), Canadian comedian
• Robert Bernard "Snooks" Dowd (1897–1962), American football and baseball player
• Snooks Eaglin (1936–2009), American musician

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• A fictional sloth and the main character in the children's television show It's a Big Big World
• A skunk who is a one-shot character in the episode "Smellorama" on Bear in the Big Blue House

Music

• Snook (band), a rap group based in Sweden

Transportation

• Audi Snook, a single-wheeled concept vehicle
• USS Snook, United States Navy ships

See also

• Eric Snookes (born 1955), English footballer