Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hooky"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hooky \Hook"y\, n. [Written also {hookey}.] [Cf. {Hook}, v. t.,
3.]
A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to run
away, to play truant.
This talk about boys . . . playing ball, and ``hooky,''
and marbles, was all moonshine. --F. Hopkinson
Smith.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hooky \Hook"y\, a.
Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hooky
n : failure to attend (especially school) [syn: {truancy}]
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