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hook it en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive, slang) To depart in a hurry; to clear out.
    • "So you can hook it," concluded Cripps, waving Melons away as though he might consider the affair now settled entirely to his satisfaction. 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 34:
    • ‘Did she cry?’ ‘She began to, but I can't stand women when they cry, so I said she'd better hook it.’ 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 37, in Of Human Bondage:
    • Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it. 1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co./A Little Prep.:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
hooks it Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
hooked it Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hooked it Tense=Past lexicographic
hooking it Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

take one's hook