Meaning

Absence from school or work; truancy..

Definitions by Sense

1. Absence from school or work; truancy.
2. Full of hooks (in any sense).
3. Shaped like or resembling a hook; hooked.
4. (UK, slang) Dodgy; crooked; illicit.

Example Sentences

Let's play hooky and go to the mall.

I was already two years late getting to college. I was twenty, not eighteen like most people who were about to graduate. All that hooky playing, stealing, and getting sent to juvenile jails had set me way back.

Sew the hooky half of the Velcro on the inner side so that it doesn't pick up fluff.

At least the mostly instrumental kickoff “Long Tailed Winter Bird” offers a hooky acoustic guitar riff you can’t blame McCartney for hanging on to as long as he does.

Start a thing in the street and attract attention to bags full of hooky gear? No. She was smarter than that.

So I decided to put on my seediest voice and leer, and go round offering the traders the Cole line in cheap hooky goods.

Word Forms

• hookier
• hookiest

Synonyms for hooky

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When Should You Use Hooky?

Use hooky when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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