Thesaurus:play truant

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

• shirk    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:truancy

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.