hookey
hooky

It was a little like playing hookey to go fishing.

This comes of playing hookey and doing everything a feller's told not to do.

"A situation came up," said Jeremy, feeling like a child caught playing hookey.

The pool hall where I used to hide while playing hookey had been closed down.

"Well, we can check out the possibility that your father played hookey.

There is something about catching fish within the city limits that can only be compared to playing hookey.

Those boys were not only playing hookey but treating that gun like a cap pistol.

'And now I'm playing hookey for the rest of the afternoon.

Times had been good for Hookey, it seemed.

The officials, he added, assured him that youths would not be arrested "simply for playing hookey."

By throwing away all hope and playing hookey.

I'd made sure you'd played hookey and been a-swimming.

You've more than earned your introduction to Old Hookey.

But while he sometimes played hookey, she said he was never a habitual truant.

They hadn't, however, reckoned on Hookey Galley trying to do the same.

In the 'twenties playing hookey was almost unknown.

They took home the audience choice award in 2008 for their film High Stakes Hookey.

"Haven't you ever heard of playing hookey?"

"Are you playing hookey again today?"

But now he said incredibly, and with an inane expression to match, as though she were his disapproving mother: "I played hookey."

No one looks at his cards, but makes his stake on pure speculation; hence the name "blind" hookey.

Brian Hookey, who had been one of Pat Delgado's best friends.

Hookey had been making lots of wheels and rims, for one thing, and someone must have been paying him to do it.

Now, exactly on time, Rufus Hookey shouted out: "Has they confessed?"

An' once, on a Thursday, we dug a lot of clams together, an' played hookey Friday to peddle them.