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Noun

hooky player - one who is absent from school without permission

truant

absentee - one that is absent or not in residence

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This is a wonderful system for adult hooky players with a "doctor's appointment" that coincides with the whitetail rut.

Spooked bucks: just because a deer waves its white flag doesn't mean you should wave yours

Hooky players in Kentucky's Walton-Verona Independent School District don't stand a chance.

Eliminating dropouts with persistence and shoe leather: this small school district took on its truancy problem head-on. Its result: no dropouts. (district profile)

He promptly decided to go "unilateral," as the minders referred to hooky players. (Unlike MacArthur, Kelly did not think the mind control was a story, but he evaded it.) With a fellow correspondent, he donned fatigues, pasted a quasi-military symbol on their rented car and rolled to what had been, before he got there, more of a killing field than a battleground.

Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War

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