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hooky

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hook⋅y

1  [hook-ee]
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–noun
unjustifiable absence from school, work, etc. (usually used in the phrase play hooky): On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go fishing.
Also, hookey.

Origin:
1840–50, Americanism; perh. alter. of phrase hook it escape, make off

hook⋅y

2  [hook-ee]
–adjective, hook⋅i⋅er, hook⋅i⋅est.
1. full of hooks.
2. hook-shaped.
Origin:
1545–55; hook 1 + -y 1
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hook·y   (hŏŏk'ē)   
n.   Informal
Absence without leave; truancy: play hooky from school.

[Perhaps from hook it, to make off.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

hooky 
1848, Amer.Eng. (New York City), from Du. hoekje "hide and seek," or from hook it, 14c., "make off, run away," originally "depart, proceed."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

hooky

see play hooky.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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