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booking it

booking it is the present participle and gerund 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 booking it

What is booking it the present participle and gerund of?
Booking it is the present participle and gerund of book it.

Words near booking it in the dictionary

  1. booking classes
  2. booking hall
  3. booking halls
  4. booking in
  5. booking into
  6. booking it
  7. booking lad
  8. booking lads
  9. booking off
  10. booking office
  11. booking offices

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Adapted from Wiktionary: booking 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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