Kook may refer to:

A Yiddish surname meaning "look"

• Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi in the British Mandate of Palestine, considered to be Israel's first Chief Rabbi. Yiddish (yi [[wiktייִדיש ייִדיש]] yidish or yi [[wiktאידיש אידיש]] idish, literally "Jewish" is a nonterritorial High A surname is a name added to a Given name and is part of a Personal name. Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935 was the first Ashkenazi Chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionist
• Zvi Yehuda Kook, son of the above, prominent Religious Zionist rabbi. Zvi Yehuda Kook (1891-1982 was a Rabbi, leader of Religious Zionism (usually associated with the Hardal movement in Israel) and Rosh Yeshiva Religious Zionism, or the Religious Zionist Movement (a branch of which is also called Mizrachi) is an ideology that combines Zionism and religious
• Hillel Kook, nephew of Abraham Isaac Kook, prominent Revisionist Zionism activist during World War II. Hillel Kook (הלל קוק born 24 July 1915, died 18 August 2001) also known as Peter Bergson (Hebrew פיטר ברגסון Revisionist Zionism is a nationalist faction within the Zionist movement World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including

In entertainment

• The Kooks, a British indie Band. The Kooks are an Indie band based in the United Kingdom. The band was formed in Brighton, United Kingdom, and currently consists of four members
• Kooks, a 1971 David Bowie song. Kooks is a song written by David Bowie from 1971 on the album Hunky Dory. David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger.
• KOOK-TV- A television station (now KTVQ)

As a pejorative

• An unskilled surfer or skateboarder

• Crank (person)
• net. KTVQ is the CBS affiliate in Billings Montana. It broadcasts on channel 2 (Cable channel 5 and is owned by the Evening Post Publishing Company. Surfing is a surface water sport in which the participant is carried along the face of a breaking wave, most commonly using a Surfboard, although wave-riders Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a Skateboard. "Crank" is a Pejorative term for a person who either holds some belief which the vast majority of his contemporaries would consider false is eccentric (especially kook, a crank who surfs Usenet newsgroups

See also

• Cuckoo (disambiguation)
• Wilbur Kookmeyer, cartoon

Wilbur Kookmeyer is the title character of a cartoon strip by Bob Penuelas which first appeared in Surfer magazine in 1986.

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