Found 2 items, similar to hooky.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: hooky hooky n : failure to attend (especially school) [syn: truancy]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Hooky Hooky \Hook"y\ (h[oo^]k"[y^]), a. Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks. [1913 Webster] Hooky \Hook"y\ (h[oo^]k"[y^]), n. [Written also hookey.] [Cf. Hook, v. t., 3.] A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to be truant, to run away; -- used mostly of youths absent from school without a valid reason and without the knowledge of their parents. Also (figuratively and jocosely), to be absent from duty for frivolous reasons. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] This talk about boys . . . playing ball, and “hooky,” and marbles, was all moonshine. --F. Hopkinson Smith. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]