Usually means: Skipping obligations for leisure activities.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. hookey: Merriam-Webster
  2. hookey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hookey: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Hookey, hookey: Wordnik
  5. hookey: Wiktionary
  6. hookey: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. hookey: Dictionary.com
  8. hookey: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Hookey: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. hookey: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Hookey: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. HOOKEY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  13. hookey: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hookey: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hookey: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hookey: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hookey, hookey: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hookey: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hookey)

▸ noun:  (slang) Truancy, especially from school.

Similar:
hooie, hooey, hooch, hoopty, hootch, hoojah, hokeyness, hooptee, hoochie, hoco, more...

Opposite:
attendance, presence, showing up

Phrases:
playing hookey, Blind Hookey, hookey walker, more...

Adjectives:
blind, whist, much, old, complicated



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Similar:
hooie, hooey, hooch, hoopty, hootch, hoojah, hokeyness, hooptee, hoochie, hoco, more...

Opposite:
attendance, presence, showing up

Phrases:
playing hookey, Blind Hookey, hookey walker, more...

Adjectives:
blind, whist, much, old, complicated



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