booked
- 1Simple past and past participle of book.
The band booked three shows in a single weekend.
They had already booked the venue before announcing the tour.
Note
A regular -ed form that does double duty: a past tense on its own, and a participle after have or be. Much of its work happens in the passive. A suspect is booked by police, and a player is booked by the referee and shown a card. The slang sense of traveling very fast is intransitive, so it has a past tense but no passive.
The driver was booked on suspicion of theft.
Their captain was booked for a late tackle in the first half.
booked is a form of book
book, verb: To arrange in advance to have or use something, such as a room, ticket, or appointment, or for a performer or speaker to appear. Full entry
- Spelling
- book → booked: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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