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It's never played in school
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hooky
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB play ▪ Abraham and MacGregor begin tasting that delicious sense of playing hooky from life, just like two big, naughty kids. ▪ A boy playing hooky in Texas is not a criminal who is put away for study. ▪ Maricela Roman ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hooky (or spelling variations thereof) is the nickname of: F. S. Bell (1897-1973), British Royal Navy captain nicknamed "Hookie", commanded HMS Exeter in the Second World War Battle of the River Plate Edgar Chadwick (1869-1942), English footballer and national ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hooky \Hook"y\ (h[oo^]k"[y^]), a. Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also hookey , in the truant sense, 1848, American English (New York City), from Dutch hoekje "hide and seek;" or else from hook it , attested since 14c. as "make off, run away," originally "depart, proceed."
Usage examples of hooky.
And for Hooky it was comparatively safe, for Bentley aimed only where his gloves were.
Shetlands: two, that Hooky was always full of chat and leg-pulling was his favourite sport.
Nobody did much drinking at sea, but Hooky Winters, chatting to Jack Maunsell and Bruce Fry the helo king, was enjoying his usual pink gin.
Pentecost had a camera with him: he went in through the screen door, and Hooky plunged after him.
Cooper made a mock-approving face at Comerford: then he found himself face to face with the chaplain, as Hooky came up the port-side steps.
Two thoughts came quickly: one, those trawlers off the Shetlands: two, that Hooky was always full of chat and leg-pulling was his favourite sport.
Doug Cooper made a mock-approving face at Comerford: then he found himself face to face with the chaplain, as Hooky came up the port-side steps.
Sub-Lieutenant Sainsbury, had inexcusably caroused with a dozen bottles of beer and Hooky Walker and two of his petty-officer shipmates.
No questioning here, absolutely not, of even such a man as Hooky Walker.
First Hooky Walker in his strange new ship, then an obviously taut officer like Caswell for his deputy, and now, for coxswain, that most important of senior ratings, a man whom Bentley liked, and therefore, by implication, strongly recommended.
Caswell returned to take the watch, Hooky Walker reported that all was ready, and Sainsbury, after a final look round that smiling, terrible sky, went down to his cabin for his prayer-book.
Luxton reached for the limejuice jug and Hooky made a rude reference to the incompetence of messmen who forget ice-cubes in limejuice.
Randall knew sailors, but Hooky had forgotten more about that complex subject than the lieutenant ever knew - he had been one himself.
He turned his head from the shipping in the harbour and he looked at Hooky speculatively.
Strolling hallways bounded by the muffled sounds of class in session feels like playing hooky, reignites the adolescent joy of bending rules when rules were easier to bend.