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booked it

booked it is the simple past and past participle of book it.

Meaning of book it

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

Questions about booked it

What is booked it the simple past and past participle of?
Booked it is the simple past and past participle of book it.

Words near booked it in the dictionary

  1. booke
  2. booked
  3. booked away
  4. booked in
  5. booked into
  6. booked it
  7. booked off
  8. booked on
  9. booked solid
  10. booked up
  11. bookend

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Adapted from Wiktionary: booked it (page history and authors); book it (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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