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play hookie

play hookie is the alternative spelling of play hooky.

Meaning of play hooky

Verb

play hooky (third-person singular simple present plays hooky, present participle playing hooky, simple past and past participle played hooky)

  1. (US, idiomatic) To play truant; to avoid (informally: skip) school, work, or other duties (stay away from these without permission nor an excuse); to skive or to bunk off (UK);
    • Plenty of people played hooky from work to go see the movie on opening day.
    Synonyms:
    play truant

Forms of play hookie

third-person singular presentplays hookie
present participleplaying hookie
past participleplayed hookie
pastplayed hookie

Questions about play hookie

What is play hookie the alternative spelling of?
Play hookie is the alternative spelling of play hooky.

Words near play hookie in the dictionary

  1. play hardball
  2. play havoc
  3. play hell with
  4. play hob with
  5. play hookey
  6. play hookie
  7. play hooky
  8. play host to
  9. play house
  10. play houses
  11. play in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: play hookie (page history and authors); play hooky (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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