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)
- (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.