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verb

Book v. t. (past & past part. booked; pres. part. booking)

1.

To enter, write, or register in a book or list. "Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds."

2.

To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; to reserve (2); also, to make an arrangement for a reservation; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater; to book a reservation at a restaurant.

3.

To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory. (Colloq.) "Here I am booked for three days more in Paris."

4.

To make an official record of a charge against (a suspect in a crime); performed by police.

adjective

Booked adj.

1.

Registered.

2.

On the way; destined. (Colloq.)

3.

Reserved in advance; held for future use. See reserve2.

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Etymology of 'Booked'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Booked" Quotes from Famous Books

... his beard a white hair or two was to be observed. In his short black coat and trousers he looked neither mediaeval nor a traveller, and his luggage was neither romantically minute nor interestingly large. He was booked from Dar-es-Salaam to Bombay, and the purser professed neither to know whence he came nor whither he went ...

— The Priest's Tale - Pere Etienne - From "The New Decameron", Volume III. • Robert Keable

... know if there was any little girl on board booked to Springbrook?" Mr. Simmons asked the guard ...

— The Story of Jessie • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... said he could not live; Long said he was booked for Davy Jones; the minister prayed for "our dying brother";—but Sally said he should live, and he did. After weeks of patient care he knew her; after more weeks he spoke,—words few, but precious; and when accumulating months brought to the battlefields of America redder ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various

... C. B., the Williamses—you know they were the parties who stuck up for us about our marriage, and Mrs. W. was my guardian angel, and our Best Man and Bridesmaid rolled in one, and the only third of the wedding party—my sister-in-law, who is booked for Prince Otto—Jenkin I suppose some time—George Meredith, the only man of genius of my acquaintance, and then I believe I'll have to take to the dead, the ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... or 22d; you here in Brooklyn say the 21st; they in New York say it was the 22d. Laboring under this serious doubt, when I came on the stand and found my name enrolled among the orators and statesmen present, and saw that I was booked to make a speech, I appealed to a learned and most eloquent attorney to represent me on this occasion. I even tried to bribe him with an office which I could not give; but he said that he belonged to that army sometimes described as "invincible ...

— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various

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