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hook it (third-person singular simple present hooks it, present participle hooking it, simple past and past participle hooked it)
- (slang, intransitive, idiomatic) To depart in a hurry; to clear out.
- Synonym: take one's hook
1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 34:
"So you can hook it," concluded Cripps, waving Melons away as though he might consider the affair now settled entirely to his satisfaction.
1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 37, in Of Human Bondage:
‘Did she cry?’ ‘She began to, but I can't stand women when they cry, so I said she'd better hook it.’