(1) There were three fans sporting hooky Liverpool replica shirts outside the Copacabana Palace hotel, where the delegation from the Uruguayan Football Association were deliberating their next move, on Thursday morning as Pharrell Williams’ Happy blared out over a neighbouring cafe’s loudspeaker system on permanent loop.
(2) 9.44pm BST Prohibition's Day Off In case vicariously touring Chicago with Benji doesn't quite have the delinquent kick you're looking for, two classics of the 80s show the city from three very different points of view: students playing hooky, gangsters brewing hooch, and the authority figures trying to catch them.
(3) 'Satisfied' is smoochy soul with one foot in Sly's There's a Riot Goin' On With the playback concluded, its creator takes the makeshift stage with his band but stays off to one side as protegee Tamar and foxy twin sisters Mya and Mandy shake and shimmy their way through hooky originals and infectious covers.
(4) You can just do what most of us will do: play hooky,” it suggests.
Kooky
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) If your little daughter does a kooky dance to a Prince song don’t bother putting it on YouTube for her grandparents to see or a purple dwarf in assless chaps will put an injunction on you.
(2) The truth: This is clever and kooky music, but obviously miles from the Kooks .
(3) They all followed a similar template: remember the kooky, pudding-bowl kid from About a Boy ?
(4) Instead, let’s focus on the Republican argument that this is a kooky misunderstanding.
(5) That aversion to cruelty has stayed with him; the worst you could say about his work is that it's whimsical or excessively kooky at times, but it never wants for compassion.
(6) It's similarly disingenuous to pretend that this is a matter of a few, kooky individuals (albeit ones at the top of the Ukip hierarchy).
(7) Giannini's first since becoming a mother, it demonstrated two things: how she is a perfect fit for this most Italian of brands, and the move of fashion's focus from the warehouses and kooky references of London fashion week to the high-class hotels and all-out glamour of Milan.
(8) Of these, Dusty Springfield was the most technically proficient and the most temperamental; Lulu had the most powerful vocal cords but weaker songs; Sandie Shaw had a trendy, kooky image and songs to match; and Black benefited hugely from her association with the Beatles – John Lennon and Paul McCartney composed several of her hits – and their manager Brian Epstein.
(9) All of us can point to the kooky one, the dumb one, the OCD one in our own friendship groups.
(10) Perfection is out and kooky is in, say observers, and to stand out on the catwalk now you need more than a conventionally pretty face and a stick-thin physique.
(11) more words from the Guardian's chief pop critic Alexis Petridis Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon All its idiosyncracies of songwriting and arrangement and delivery feel meant: unlike some of the artists to whom she's been compared, you're never struck by the sensation Mvula is killing herself to appear kooky that man Alexis Petridis yet again Rudimental – Home There are impressive contributions, including one from the reliably fearsome Angel Haze, but the band's roving sensibilities – garage, house, R&B – don't always come together.
(12) Far less so than is normal even in the kooky looking-glass world of film.
(13) Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) and The Grass Harp (1951) were carefully wrought examples of swamp gothic – unashamedly ornate, lush and impressionistic, and for all its metropolitan sass, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), Capote's third novel, in which he gave us the kooky, amoral Holly Golightly, also had its roots in the deep south.
(14) "That makes me sound disrespectful," he says, "but I just think of these people as my kooky distant relatives," he says.
(15) There is an outside chance, in a film, that the heroine might be kooky or her best friend might make funny faces.
(16) And Jerry Brown, who led the state before the crisis, was remembered, if at all, as "Governor Moonbeam", a kooky, distant predecessor to the baroque Arnold Schwarzenegger.
(17) Displaying other talents, or having a unique selling point – whether that means being kooky and cute, showing a rare openness on social media like Delevingne, or taking on a different persona outside of modelling, such as Jourdan Dunn and her baking – helps audiences around the globe to connect, encouraging brands and designers to seek out and employ these women.
(18) Yet despite her own version of the hat and the waistcoat – the dyed fringe, the occultish homemade tattoos – Claire insists that Grimes is not a kooky persona that she slips on and off with her rings.
(19) It seemed so obvious, but everybody else seemed to think I was kooky."
(20) Kooky play, Pagan is on second, and the inning continues!