book it

[book it]

idiom

Slang.

1. to move quickly; hurry.

   We had to book it to the other terminal to make our flight, which we barely did.

2. to flee at top speed, as to avoid being discovered or caught by someone.

   The cops are coming—book it!

Example Sentences

By the end, she says they both felt confident she’d book it.

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We book it down the street, through the neglected recreational fields and past a beaten blue sign.

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Sometimes it had felt like there was a magnet in his room instead of a book —it pulled and pulled.

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If there is one unavoidable criticism of Ms. Wade’s enjoyable book, it is that she seems fearful of offending her subject.

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I put everything into this book — it is heart, it is soul, it is tears, it is sweat.

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