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The art of being educated by the world instead of the classroom, illegally.
means To skip school without permission, usually to go do something more fun than long division.
from From the phrase 'play hooky,' which surfaces in American English in the 1800s. The likely root is the old verb 'hook' meaning to sneak off or make off with something — related to the dialect word 'hookey,' used for sly, crooked behavior. So skipping school was, linguistically, a small act of theft: stealing the day for yourself.
- origin
- from hook it, old slang for sneaking off
- peak era
- 1848, first printed use in america
- britain calls it
- bunking off, same crime, better accent
- irony
- requires more planning than attending would