Instead, he'd play hookey for the day, and go off by himself.

The only way you can manage will be to play hookey from church.

Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good time.

How these trout streams used to lure him to play hookey!

I might be able to play hookey for an hour.

They followed the little boys and girls on their way to church lest they play hookey.

Did you play hookey and get mugged?

But I will, if I have to p-p- play hookey from school, and s-s-stay up here right along!

And I've made you play hookey-fromhome!

He would not play hookey, even when his sober judgment told him it was the most profitable thing he could do.

Neither were they generally known as "chums," or comrades, who might have entered into an unhallowed combination to " play hookey."

I had the sudden, liberating sense of playing hookey on a school day.

He is really playing hookey, though not for his own pleasure.

You must have thought he was some Sunday-school kid playing hookey from school.

Been playing hookey from momma, leaving off your panties like the big girls do.

But he was only a sulky schoolboy then, playing hookey.