To try to bring them together they have a hooky day.

The winning team gets to play hooky for a day.

To play a little hooky, as your Earth expression goes.

Hooky probably does not quite fit that profile, but for me he is a real class act.

We can't be late for work after playing hooky yesterday," she said. "

Don't think you're going to dump everything in my lap and play hooky.

Really the album is just a collection of hooky little singles.

As for the hooky part, she was hardly alone.

Or have you ever caught anyone else playing hooky, and what did you do about it?

Some people have a hard time keeping their minds on work when the sun’s shining outside, and that can lead to summer hooky.

But at another stratum, one afternoon of hooky and you lose your income.

Things are running fairly smoothly now, anyway, so you can afford to play hooky for a while.

Lots of exciting Hooky artefacts have been put in our care and more are promised.

Then the man finally said, 'I guess you're not actually playing hooky, are you?'

Does this trailer strike you as especially hooky or hypnotic?

People may use terms like truancy and playing hooky.

“These songs are incredibly hooky and have lasted the test of time.

"It's that patience and composure we're looking for Hooky to have an impact in the game, really."

Yet, she insists that her employees play occasional hooky.

Catching a fish under such conditions seemed downright illicit - in a playing hooky sort of way.

Del Boy has cleared all the hooky gear, but the flat is looking a bit bare.

The Detroit rapper (pictured) returns with a hooky new sound.

It also keeps the best pint of Old Hooky in town.

A bull that's real hooky, that really wants to run over you, it's not that hard.

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.