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Definition 2024

play_truant

play truant

English

Verb

play truant

To be absent from school without permission.

Synonyms

cut class
skip class
(US) play hooky
(British, NZ) bunk
(chiefly British) bump off, skive
(Australian, NZ) wag

Translations

to be absent from school without permission

Arabic:
Chinese:
Mandarin: 逃學 (zh), 逃学 (zh) ‎(táoxué), 曠課 (zh), 旷课 (zh) ‎(kuàngkè), 逃課 (zh), 逃课 (zh) ‎(táokè)
Danish: skulke, pjække
Dutch: spijbelen (nl)
Finnish: lintsata (fi)
French: faire l'école buissonnière (fr) (obsolete), sécher (fr)
German: die Schule schwänzen
Hebrew: הבריז (he) ‎(hivriz)
Hungarian: lóg (hu)

Italian: bigiare (it), marinare (it), segare
Japanese: 学校をさぼる ‎(gakkō o saboru)
Korean:
Maori: takē kura
Polish: wagarować
Portuguese: matar (pt)
Russian: прогу́ливать (ru) impf ‎(progúlivatʹ), прогуля́ть (ru) pf ‎(proguljátʹ)
Slovene: špricati
Spanish: hacer pellas (es), hacer novillos (es)
Vietnamese: