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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of rook.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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.

    Mike Fletcher A Novel 1892

  • And that same evening this hypocritical Highness 'rooked' a foolish young fellow of over one thousand English pounds! "

    Temporal Power Marie Corelli 1889

  • If you already got rooked on your car loan, you can refinance online at sites like MoneyAisle.com or bankrate.com.

    Car Dealer Scams To Watch Out For 2011

  • If you already got rooked on your car loan, you can refinance online at sites like MoneyAisle.com or bankrate.com.

    Car Dealer Scams To Watch Out For 2011

  • 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.

    Health care ad wars continue 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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