hook it

Language: en

Meaning: (slang,intransitive,idiomatic)Todepartin a hurry; toclear out.Synonym:take one's hook1899,Rudyard Kipling,Stalky & Co./A Little Prep.:Duncan was wounded, and the escorthooked it.1915,W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 37, inOf Human Bondage:‘Did she cry?’ ‘She began to, but I can't stand women when they cry, so I said she'd betterhook it.’

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