Usually means: Skipping school or work intentionally.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word hooky:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. hooky: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hooky, hooky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hooky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hooky: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hooky: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hooky, hooky: Wordnik
  7. hooky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hooky: Wiktionary
  9. hooky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hooky (hookey): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hooky: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hooky, hooky: Dictionary.com
  13. hooky: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hooky: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hooky: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hooky: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hooky: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Hooky: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hooky: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. hooky: Free Dictionary
  21. hooky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hooky: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. hooky: Rhymezone

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hooky: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hooky: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hooky, hooky, hooky, hooky, hooky, hooky, hooky: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hooky: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See hookeys as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hooky)

noun:  Absence from school or work; truancy.
adjective:  Full of hooks (in any sense).
adjective:  Shaped like or resembling a hook; hooked.
adjective:  (UK, slang) Dodgy; crooked; illicit.

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