'Hooky' definitions:

Definition of 'hooky'

(from WordNet)
noun
Failure to attend (especially school) [syn: truancy, hooky]

Definition of 'Hooky'

From: GCIDE
  • Hooky \Hook"y\ (h[oo^]k"[y^]), a. Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Hooky'

From: GCIDE
  • Hooky \Hook"y\ (h[oo^]k"[y^]), n. [Written also hookey.] [Cf. Hook, v. t., 3.] A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to be truant, to run away; -- used mostly of youths absent from school without a valid reason and without the knowledge of their parents. Also (figuratively and jocosely), to be absent from duty for frivolous reasons. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
  • This talk about boys . . . playing ball, and "hooky," and marbles, was all moonshine. --F. Hopkinson Smith. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Synonyms of 'hooky'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Hooky'