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Hooky  n.  (Written also hookey)  A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to be truant, to run away; used mostly of youths absent from school without a valid reason and without the knowledge of their parents. Also (figuratively and jocosely), to be absent from duty for frivolous reasons. "This talk about boys... playing ball, and "hooky," and marbles, was all moonshine."






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"Hooky" Quotes from Famous Books



... "You're right, by Hooky!" cried Roaring Ralph; at which seeming admission of his knavery the merriment of the spectators was greatly increased; nor was it much lessened when the fellow proceeded to aver that he had borrowed it, and that with the express stipulation that it should be left at Bruce's Station, subject to ...
— Nick of the Woods • Robert M. Bird

... a' right!" stammered Zebedee, too dazed to take in the whole matter at once. "What is it, lad, eh? They darned galoots ha'n't a tracked 'ee, have 'em? By the hooky! but they'm givin' 't us hot and strong this time, Adam: they was trampin' 'bout inside here a minit agone, tryin' to keep our sperrits up by a-rattlin' the bilboes in our ears. Why, however did 'ee dodge 'em, eh? What's the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 • Various



Words linked to "Hooky" :   hooky player, nonattendance, play hooky, truancy



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