Usually means: Students who skip school intentionally.
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  1. truants: Merriam-Webster
  2. truants: Collins English Dictionary
  3. truants: Vocabulary.com
  4. truants: Wordnik
  5. truants: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. truants: Wiktionary
  7. truants: Dictionary.com
  8. truants: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Truants (film), Truants: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. truants: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See truant as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (truant)

adjective:  Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
adjective:  (specifically) Of a student: absent from school without permission.
adjective:  (obsolete) Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless.
noun:  An idle or lazy person; an idler.
noun:  (specifically) A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
noun:  (obsolete) Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel.
verb:  (intransitive) Also used with the impersonal pronoun it (dated): to shirk or wander from business or duty; (specifically) of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To idle away or waste (time).
▸ Also see truant


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