Definitions
failure to attend (especially school)
Word origin
First attested in 1848 in New York City. Most likely from Dutch hoekje (“nook, corner; 'spot to hide' in hide-and-seek”). Formerly, "hoekje spelen" could be used to mean "to play hide-and-seek", though the common term for the game nowadays is verstoppertje. By surface analysis, hook + -y.
Used in a sentence
“Let's play hooky and go to the mall.”
“I was already two years late getting to college. I was twenty, not eighteen like most people who were about to graduate. All that hooky playing, stealing, and getting sent to juvenile jails had set me way back.”
“Sew the hooky half of the Velcro on the inner side so that it doesn't pick up fluff.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Class-cutting absence”5 letters
02“Absent from class”5 letters
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