hook it

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hook it (third-person singular simple present hooks it, present participle hooking it, simple past and past participle hooked it)

1. (slang, intransitive, idiomatic) To depart in a hurry; to clear out.

   Synonym: take one's hook

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

     Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it.

   • 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.’