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book it

book it verb: to take off quickly; to leave in a hurry.

Verb

book it (third-person singular simple present books it, present participle booking it, simple past and past participle booked it)

  1. (slang) To take off quickly; to leave in a hurry.
    • “But if I’m not around? Book it. Run away, not toward it like you did today.”2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 169

book it meaning in Bengali

book it in Bengali

দ্রুত চলে যাওয়া, তাড়াহুড়ো করে প্রস্থান করা

Forms of book it

third-person singular presentbooks it
present participlebooking it
past participlebooked it
pastbooked it

Origin of book it

Possibly from earlier onomatopoeic bookity-book.

Questions about book it

What does book it mean?
Book it means to take off quickly; to leave in a hurry.
What is book it in Bengali?
Book it in Bengali is দ্রুত চলে যাওয়া, তাড়াহুড়ো করে প্রস্থান করা. See Book it meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is book it?
Book it is a verb.
What is the past tense of book it?
The past tense of book it is booked it.

Words near book it in the dictionary

  1. book groups
  2. book hand
  3. book hands
  4. book in
  5. book into
  6. book it
  7. book keeping
  8. book knowledge
  9. book label
  10. book labels
  11. book law

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: book it (page history and authors); book it (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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