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What does by hook or by crook mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word by hook or by crook? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. (idiomatic) By any means possible; one way or another.
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I have told them I will replace everything by hook or by crook.
Every Friday, by hook or by crook, I was in front of the TV set.
I had to watch the steering, and circumvent those snags, and get the tin-pot along by hook or by crook.
Their only concern is to win the match by hook or by crook and be in line to enter the final round.
Nonetheless, in spite of a populist government out to gag them by hook or by crook, they still manage to break scandals galore.
I am against a model thought out in Brussels that must, by hook or by crook, be implemented across Europe.

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