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Definition: HOOKEY |
HOOKEYNoun1. See Hockey. |
Date "HOOKEY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage, besique, euchre, drole, ecarte, picquet, allfours, quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston; blackjack, twenty-one, vingtun; quinze, thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino, lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren, lift smoke, blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience, pairs; banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker; bluff, bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, three-card monte, nap, penny-ante, poker, reversis, squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-neighbor; baccarat. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HOOKEY |
| Specialty definitions using "HOOKEY": Hookey Walker. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Andy Plays Hookey (1946) Playin' Hookey (1928) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Playing hookey. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Last days of school. Being the only boy in his grade who hasn't played hookey this ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "HOOKEY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HOOKEY" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "HOOKEY": play hookey. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hookey | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HOOKEY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | veszélyeztet vmit (to be a danger to sg, to play blind hookey with sg), lóg (dangle, hang out, to dawdle, to hack around, to hang slack, to loaf, to lop over, to play hookey, to play hooky, to play the wag, to play truant, to play wag, to skulk, to slacken, to swing for a crime, to swing the lead), iskolát kerül (to play hookey, to play hooky, to play the wags), elfecsérel vmit (to play blind hookey with sg), bliccel (to play hookey, to play hooky, to play the wag, to play truant, to play wag, to sneak a meal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 狡休み (being away from work without a good reason, playing hookey), ずる休み (being away from work without a good reason, playing hookey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ずるやすみ (being away from work without a good reason, playing hookey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ookeyhay okul kaçağı (hooky, truant). (various references) прогульник (absentee, truant, wag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HOOKEY": hookeys. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-k-o-o-y" | |
-1 letter: hokey, hooey, hooky. | |
-2 letters: hoke, hook, okeh, yoke. | |
-3 letters: hey, hoe, hoy, key, oho, oke, ooh, yeh, yok. | |
-4 letters: eh, he, ho, oe, oh, oy, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-k-o-o-y" | |
+1 letter: eyehook, hookeys. | |
+2 letters: eyehooks. | |
+3 letters: doohickey. | |
+4 letters: doohickeys, hokeypokey, hokypokies. | |
+5 letters: hokeypokeys. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 4F 4F 4B 45 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- --- -.- . -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001111 01001111 01001011 01000101 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H O O K E Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 004F 004F 004B 0045 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)424949453959 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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