Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of rook
plural rookings
- An act or instance of cheating or swindling.
Wide-eyed, staring up into the darkness, he pondered the problem of giving Babe a well-deserved rooking.
1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 14, column 1
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