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Definition of hooky from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

hooky

/ˈhʊki/

/ˈhʊki/

(also hookey)

(North American English, old-fashioned)Idioms

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play hooky (informal)

(British English play truant)

to stay away from school without permissionTopics Educationc2

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