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If you play hooky, you stay away from school (and sometimes work) when you are supposed to be there, and nobody gave you permission. It is informal American English, a little old-fashioned and playful — the kind of line you hear in stories about children. You almost always need the verb play: people say play hooky, not “I hooky.” It does not sound as heavy as a legal word for missing school; it can even sound cheeky. British speakers more often say play truant, or, very , .
翹課、逃學（美式口語，多說 play hooky）
組成First recorded in New York in 1848. Most likely from Dutch hoekje “nook, corner” (a hiding spot). It looks like hook + -y, but that is only the surface.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hookynoun詞源 1/ˈhʊki/
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Absence from school or work; truancy.
- Let's play hooky and go to the mall.
- I was already two years late getting to college. I was twenty, not eighteen like most people who were about to graduate. All that hooky playing, stealing, and getting sent to juvenile jails had set me way back.
hookyadj詞源 2/ˈhʊki/
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Full of hooks (in any sense).
- Sew the hooky half of the Velcro on the inner side so that it doesn't pick up fluff.
- At least the mostly instrumental kickoff “Long Tailed Winter Bird” offers a hooky acoustic guitar riff you can’t blame McCartney for hanging on to as long as he does.
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Shaped like or resembling a hook; hooked.
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slangDodgy; crooked; illicit.
- Start a thing in the street and attract attention to bags full of hooky gear? No. She was smarter than that.
- So I decided to put on my seediest voice and leer, and go round offering the traders the Cole line in cheap hooky goods.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。