Thesaurus:play truant
English
Verb
Sense: to be absent from school without permission
Synonyms
- beak (Northern Ireland)
- bob (UK)
- bug out
- bump off (UK, idomatic)
- bunk (UK, India, Pakistan)
- bunk off (UK)
- cut class
- dip (North America)
- ditch (North America)
- dob (Northern Ireland)
- dog [⇒ thesaurus] (Scotland)
- go on the hop (Ireland)
- go on the lang (Ireland)
- go on the mitch (Ireland)
- hop the wag
- jig (North America, Australia, New Zealand)
- kid (North America)
- mitch (Ireland)
- pip (North America)
- play hooky (North America)
- play the wag
- play truant
- sag off (idiomatic)
- scull (Jamaica)
- skip (North America)
- skive (UK)
- skive off (UK)
- sluff (North America)
- twag (Hull, Beverley, East Riding)
- wag (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
- wag it
Hypernyms
See also
Further reading
- “623. avoidance” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “187. absence” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “play truant” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.