| Some of those who were caught playing hookey were taken back to school, while others had their names and address taken. |
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| When I played hookey from school, my teacher wrote a letter of thanks to my mother. |
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| The next day, Aunt Polly punishes him for playing hookey by making him whitewash their entire fence. |
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| Now a member of Skull and Bones, with several jobs in business houses waiting for him when he graduates, Stack himself has no misgivings about his decision to play hookey from an agricultural college. |
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| The pair are playing wild hookey from their own ground-down lives and for the 90-odd minutes of this joyous production – directed by the play's author, David Greig – it's as if we too have gone Awol from our quotidian cares. |
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| Lounge on the grassy green slopes framing the idyllic three-acre pool, always crowded on a sunny day with high schoolers playing hookey, hippies from the city's heyday and everyone in between. |
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| It was a wonderful place, and in the middle of all the splendour was a little old gentleman with a very long black coat and a very long white beard and a hookey nose — like a falcon. |
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| If a Gypsy plays hookey, it's in order to stay home. |
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