play hooky

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play hooky - play truant from work or school; "The boy often plays hooky"

bunk off

jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"

skip, cut - intentionally fail to attend; "cut class"

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play hooky → يِتغَيب jít za školu pjække schwänzen κάνω σκασιαρχείο dejar de asistir, hacer novillos lintsata faire l’école buissonnière izostajati sa satova marinare la scuola サボる 무단결석하다 spijbelen skulke wagarować faltar à aula, matar aula прогуливать skolka หนีโรงเรียน okuldan kaçmak trốn học 逃学

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bunk off cut hooky skip			Play hooky from the rest of your life with `Ferris Bueller' The David Minor Theater & Pub, 180 E. BRIEFLY SCREEN by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) Parents of pupils who play hooky from school in a Tyneside borough will be fined under new plans to crack down on truants. Truants' parents to face fines by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) The much heralded `crack-down' on parents who allow their offspring to play hooky seems to have gone off with more like a whimper than a bang. Susan Lee column: What is the elusive answer to truancy? by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)			plaudit Plauditory plaudits Plauen plausibility plausible Plausibleize Plausibleness plausibly plausive Plautus Plautus alle Plavix play play a joke on play a trick on play about or around Play actor play along play around play back Play debt play down play false play group play hooky play in play it by ear play list Play of colors play off play on play on words play out Play pleasure play possum play reading play therapy play through play tricks play truant play up play with play-act play-acting play-action pass play-actor play-box play-by-play play-centre Play-Doh			play games Play Gauge play God play gooseberry Play ground Play ground play group play group play hard to get play hard to get play hard to get play hard to get play hard to get play hard to get play hard to get play hardball play havoc with play havoc with play havoc with someone or something play heart out play hell play hell play hell play hell play hell with play hob play hob play hob play hob with play hob with someone or something play hooky play hunch play hunch play hunch play hunch play hunch play hunch play ignorant play in play in play in Peoria play in Peoria play in Peoria play in Peoria play in Peoria play in Peoria play in the big leagues play innocent play into hands play into hands play into hands play into hands play into hands play into hands play into hands play into the hands of play into the hands of play into the hands of play into the hands of play into the hands of play into the hands of

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