hook it

verb

hook it

verb
1

Idiomatic, Slang To depart in a hurry; to clear out.

  • Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it.1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co./A Little Prep.:
  • "So you can hook it," concluded Cripps, waving Melons away as though he might consider the affair now settled entirely to his satisfaction.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 34:
1 more example
  • ‘Did she cry?’ ‘She began to, but I can't stand women when they cry, so I said she'd better hook it.’1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 37, in Of Human Bondage:

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