the boys played hookey to go fishing

См. также в других словарях:

• hooky — hooky1 /hook ee/, n. unjustifiable absence from school, work, etc. (usually used in the phrase play hooky): On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go fishing. Also, hookey. [1840 50, Amer.; perh. alter. of phrase hook it escape,… …   Universalium