- play truant
- British
to stay away from school without permission
Parents often don't know their children are playing truant.
English dictionary. 2014.
play truant
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play truant — index flee Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
play truant — stay away from school, truant; Brit. informal skive (off), bunk off; Irish informal mitch (off); N. Amer. informal play hookey, goof off; … Useful english dictionary
play truant — A young person who plays truant stays away from school without permission or excuse. Ben has no reason to be absent from school he s playing truant again! … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
play truant — more than half of the freshman class staged a protest by playing truant on Monday Syn: stay away from school; informal skip school, skip, play hooky; book out … Thesaurus of popular words
play truant — verb To be absent from school without permission. Syn: cut class, skip class, play hookey, bunk, bump off, wag … Wiktionary
To play truant — Truant Tru ant, n. [F. truand, OF. truant, a vagrant, beggar; of Celtic origin; cf. W. tru, truan, wretched, miserable, truan a wretch, Ir. trogha miserable, Gael. truaghan a poor, distressed, or wretched creature, truagh wretched.] One who stays … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
play truant — be absent from school without permission … English contemporary dictionary
play hookey — Play truant … A concise dictionary of English slang
truant — [tro͞o′ənt] n. [ME < OFr, beggar, vagabond < Celt, as in Ir trōgán, dim. of truag, wretched] 1. Obs. a lazy, idle person 2. a pupil who stays away from school without permission 3. a person who neglects his or her work or duties adj. 1.… … English World dictionary
Truant — Tru ant, n. [F. truand, OF. truant, a vagrant, beggar; of Celtic origin; cf. W. tru, truan, wretched, miserable, truan a wretch, Ir. trogha miserable, Gael. truaghan a poor, distressed, or wretched creature, truagh wretched.] One who stays away… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
