take one's hook

take one's hook (third-person singular simple present takes one's hook, present participle taking one's hook, simple past took one's hook, past participle taken one's hook)

1. (slang, intransitive, idiomatic) To depart in a hurry; to clear out.

   Synonyms: hook it, sling one's hook

   • 1893, Parker Gillmore, Leaves from a Sportsman's Diary, page 131:

     I'll have none of you fellows dangiing about here; my daughter is off to Cairo, so is the old woman, and I guess that she was hitched to Elisha Kent yesterday! Now take your hook.

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary