Meaning & use
Hookey
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Truancy from school without permission, especially in the phrase 'play hookey.'
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The boys decided to play hookey and spend the day at the beach instead.
She got caught playing hookey and had to explain herself to the principal.
A note on using this word
Hookey is an informal spelling variant of 'hooky'; both are used interchangeably in the idiom 'play hooky/hookey.'
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