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hooky
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hook·y  (hk)
n. Informal
Absence without leave; truancy: play hooky from school.
[Perhaps from hook it, to make off.]
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Noun1.hookyhooky - failure to attend (especially school)
truancy
nonattendance - the failure to attend


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Yet, based solely on this show of four large paintings, in which Doig seems to have stitched out the hookier narrative threads of his earlier work, it's hard to see what all the fuss is about.
PETER DOIG by Ziolkowski, Thad / Artforum International
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