book it

verb

book it

verb

Etymology Possibly from earlier onomatopoeic bookity-book.

1

Slang To take off quickly; to leave in a hurry.

“But if I’m not around? Book it. Run away, not toward it like you did today.”2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 169:

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