When I was coaching cross-country running during the late 1970s, the runners on my team would sometimes yell before a race, “Let’s book!”
I knew that “book” meant “speed off,” but for 30 years I’ve tried to find the origin of this odd meaning of “book,” a definition that doesn’t appear in any of the dictionaries I consulted, though I’ve heard the word used this way quite often.
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