hook it

present singular third person hooks it · participle present hooking it · participle past hooked it · past hooked it

1. idiomaticintransitiveslangTo depart in a hurry; to clear out.

   Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it.

   1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co./A Little Prep.

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   "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

   ‘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

   Synonyms: take one's hook