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  • adjective superlative form of hooky: most hooky.

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Examples

  • Mr. HOARD: Elevator Music is one of the hookiest cuts on The Information, but it's also slightly retrograde in its big dumb funk and junkyard rap shtick.

    'The Information' Finds Beck at His Best 2006

  • Although band leaders Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger continue to write some of the hookiest and most clever material of the modern age, there's less fun and more ruefulness in "Sky Full of Holes," the group's fifth album.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The highlights are the hookiest songs, like the opener "Little Bird of Freedom," the title song and the Byrdsy "Bluebell Song."

    Homepage 2010

  • Those songs take material less familiar than God Only Knows et al, then makes loops out of the catchiest, hookiest snippets so that you end up with three or four minutes of non-stop heartbreaking loveliness.

    Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • And because it's hands-down the hookiest song on the album and I can't stop listening to it.

    Carrie Underwood Fans 2009

  • "But you don't intend to let him marry your daughter if by the hookiest hook and crookedest crook you can prevent it.

    Play the Game! Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

  • "Better" is teed up to be a "melodic-rock tune with infectious background vocals, sweeping guitar licks, and some of the hookiest melodies

    SMNnews.com 2008

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