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hook it

hook it verb: to depart in a hurry; to clear out.

Verb

hook it (third-person singular simple present hooks it, present participle hooking it, simple past and past participle hooked it)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive, slang) To depart in a hurry; to clear out.
    • Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it.1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co./A Little Prep.
    • "So you can hook it," concluded Cripps, waving Melons away as though he might consider the affair now settled entirely to his satisfaction.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 34
    Synonyms:
    take one's hook

hook it meaning in Bengali

hook it in Bengali

তাড়াহুড়ো করে প্রস্থান করা, পালিয়ে যাওয়া

Synonyms of hook it

Forms of hook it

third-person singular presenthooks it
present participlehooking it
past participlehooked it
pasthooked it

Questions about hook it

What does hook it mean?
Hook it means to depart in a hurry; to clear out.
What is hook it in Bengali?
Hook it in Bengali is তাড়াহুড়ো করে প্রস্থান করা, পালিয়ে যাওয়া. See Hook it meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is hook it?
Hook it is a verb.
What is the past tense of hook it?
The past tense of hook it is hooked it.

Words near hook it in the dictionary

  1. hook cross
  2. Hook End
  3. hook flash
  4. hook flashes
  5. hook in
  6. hook it
  7. hook it up
  8. hook ladder
  9. hook ladders
  10. hook maneuver
  11. hook maneuvers

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