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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rook .
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Examples
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To-night, remembering Bubbles 'words, he gave a careless, rueful thought to the question of how Varick, who was always generous about money, must be cheated -- "rooked" was the expression the doctor used in his own mind -- by these job servants who were here, so his host told him, just for the one month.
From out the Vasty Deep Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907
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When Mike had paid his hotel bill, very few pounds were left for the card-room, and judging it was not an hour in which he might tempt fortune, he "rooked" a young man remorselessly.
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And that same evening this hypocritical Highness 'rooked' a foolish young fellow of over one thousand English pounds! "
Temporal Power Marie Corelli 1889
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If you already got rooked on your car loan, you can refinance online at sites like MoneyAisle.com or bankrate.com.
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If you already got rooked on your car loan, you can refinance online at sites like MoneyAisle.com or bankrate.com.
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They are starting to see that they are being rooked into demonstrating against health care and are paying careful attention to what information is being diseminated.
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If he doesn't win Rookie of the Year, he got rooked.
Larry Abrams: The NLCS: A Tale of Two Cities Revisited Larry Abrams 2010
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The car that had rooked her fool hand could run over the club-fist five or six times, and it wouldn't be worse for the wear.
Good Country. People. Heather Fowler 2011
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If he doesn't win Rookie of the Year, he got rooked.
Larry Abrams: The NLCS: A Tale of Two Cities Revisited Larry Abrams 2010
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If he doesn't win Rookie of the Year, he got rooked.
Larry Abrams: The NLCS: A Tale of Two Cities Revisited Larry Abrams 2010
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