accrocher

From croc

• IPA^(key): /a.kʁɔ.ʃe/

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accrocher

1. (transitive) To hook, to hook up (to attach with a hook)

   Accrocher quelque chose au mur - To hang something on the wall

2. (transitive) To pick up, to become attached to.

   Accrocher de la poussière - To pick up dust

3. (transitive) To pick up, to come to learn (e.g. a skill)

   Accrocher

4. (transitive) To get, to get hold of, to obtain something.

   Accrocher une belle maison. - To get a pretty house

   Accrocher du boulot. - (familiar) To get a job

5. (transitive) To hang up, to hang up the phone, to end a telephone conversation
6. (reflexive) To get hooked, to get addicted

   S'accrocher à l'amour. - To get hooked on love.

7. (reflexive) to cling onto, to hold on to
8. (reflexive) to collide, to bump into one another

   Deux voitures se sont accrochées - Two cars collided.

• décrocher

• English: inaccrochable

• “accrocher” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• raccroche, raccroché