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a promise to your future self that present-you will absolutely regret
means The act of reserving something in advance — a room, a flight, a table, a performer — or, in police terlms, the process of formally recording someone's arrest.
from From the verb 'book,' which traces to Old English 'bōc,' the word for a written volume, ultimately tied to the beech tree ('bōc' / 'bēce') — wooden tablets and beechwood may have been early writing surfaces, a cousin to Old Norse 'bók' and German 'Buch.' To 'book' something meant literally to write it into a register or ledger, so a 'booking' is the entry in the book. The police sense follows the same logic: getting 'booked' is being written into the records.
- Origin
- From writing names into actual physical books
- Mugshot twist
- Getting arrested is also called being booked
- Cancellation tax
- Hotels profit when you ghost your reservation
- Overbooking math
- Airlines sell more seats than they have
- Last minute
- Empty rooms get cheaper as midnight approaches
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