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  • adjective That plays hooky

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Examples

  • Mixing film with live performance, the show sends two hooky-playing children into the Ruff Endz Estate, where an evil landlord enslaves them until they can bring him various enchanted objects, like “an iPod as white as milk.”

    London Theater Journal: You Scream, They Jump Higher at “Into the Hoods” - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Making the trip in the middle of the day added a lovely hooky-playing frisson.

    Hi-Ya! Jason Henry McCormick 2010

  • Mixing film with live performance, the show sends two hooky-playing children into the Ruff Endz Estate, where an evil landlord enslaves them until they can bring him various enchanted objects, like “an iPod as white as milk.”

    London Theater Journal: You Scream, They Jump Higher at “Into the Hoods” - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Don't Let Dick Cheney of Mike Bloomberg Hear About This: Noel Mason (an Australian bureaucrat who wants to curry hooky-playing by rounding up the kids and working them hard picking up trash all day).

    Gerald Bracey: Rotten Apples in Education Awards for 2007 2008

  • She first appears as the waitress in an off-the-A3 greasy spoon, who serves coffee to a pair of hooky-playing collegiates played by McDowell in his first screen role and David Hood.

    Remembering the "If...." Girl 2007

  • She first appears as the waitress in an off-the-A3 greasy spoon, who serves coffee to a pair of hooky-playing collegiates played by McDowell in his first screen role and David Hood.

    Archive 2007-06-03 2007

  • Making the trip in the middle of the day added a lovely hooky-playing frisson.

    The Beach House Patterson, James, 1947- 2002

  • Much of Joyce's own life at CBS was generically that of a big-time managing editor: the constant shuffling of people from job to job, the state visits to foreign bureaus, the high-level hooky-playing at London clothiers and choice fly-fishing streams.

    Anchors Away 1988

  • Much of Joyce's own life at CBS was generically that of a big-time managing editor: the constant shuffling of people from job to job, the state visits to foreign bureaus, the high-level hooky-playing at London clothiers and choice fly-fishing streams.

    Anchors Away 1988

  • Her duties included captaining the reservations desk, orchestrating time slots and table configurations, making up work schedules, assigning sections, finding replacements for ill or hooky-playing employees, receiving deliveries, ascertaining that tables were set correctly, that ice bins were full and the bar stocked, and generally overseeing service.

    Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990

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