hook it

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Verb

hook it (third-person singular simple present hooks it, present participle hooking it, simple past and past participle hooked it)

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