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单词 to hook jack
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to hook Jack
13. to hook Jack: to play truant. U.S. colloquial. (Cf. hookey n. 1.)
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to hop the wag1861
to play (the) wag1861
to hook Jack1877
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1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 294 Hook Jack, to play truant. New England.
1890 Dial. Notes 1 i. 22 Hookey, in ‘to play hookey’, meaning to play truant, used in Maine, but not usual in Boston, where the phrase was and is to ‘hook Jack’.
1892 Dial. Notes 216 In all the period from 1840 to 1850 the current phrase among the boys was to hook Jack.
1905 J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide iv. 70 The boy ‘hooked Jack’ for a whole day.
1967 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xlvii. 7 Hook jack, ‘play hookey’.
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