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 hooky /ˈhʊki/
 逃學者(vt.)偷(a.)多鉤的

 Hook·y a. Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.

 Hook·y n. [Written also hookey.]  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.
    This talk about boys . . . playing ball, and =\“hooky,” and marbles, was all moonshine.\=    --F. Hopkinson Smith.
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 hooky
      n : failure to attend (especially school) [syn: truancy]