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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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