v
(obsolete) To miss intentionally; to avoid.
v
(obsolete, Harvard University slang) To recite badly; to fail.
v
(slang, intransitive) To miss school, play truant, play hooky.
v
(chiefly UK, idiomatic) To cut class; to play truant.
v
(dated) To expel from a school.
v
To inform one's workplace or school that one temporarily cannot attend work or school due to illness.
v
(Britain, slang, idiomatic) To escape or flee, especially under incriminating circumstances.
v
(slang) To underperform; to lag behind; to fail to exert effort.
adj
Alternative spelling of dunzo [(US, slang) Done, finished.]
v
(South Africa, slang) To fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade)
n
(informal, US) An underperforming high school, especially one with low graduation rates.
n
A failing grade in an academic examination.
v
(US, transitive, intransitive) Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.
v
(idiomatic) (of an educator or institution) To impose failing grades on (a student), often requiring a retaking of the course or academic year.
n
(informal) Someone who has given up an educational course.
n
(idiomatic, Britain, informal) A situation in which victory has little or no value, but defeat has a huge cost.
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(idiomatic, UK, slang, dated) To play truant (be absent from school without permission).
n
(archaic) A pupil ranked behind all others; an academic failure.
v
(idiomatic) To have an unhappy married life marked by arguments and disagreements.
adj
(US, sports) The most losing; who has lost most games, votes, etc.
v
(informal) To waste time while ostensibly working productively, especially by having multiple windows open simultaneously on a computer screen.
v
(UK, education, transitive) To remove (a pupil) from the list of those enrolled at a school, for illegitimate reasons such as improving the school's examination rankings.
v
Alternative spelling of play hooky [(idiomatic, US) To play truant; to avoid (informally: skip) school, work, or other duties (stay away from these without permission nor an excuse); to skive or to bunk off (UK);]
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(idiomatic, US) To play truant; to avoid (informally: skip) school, work, or other duties (stay away from these without permission nor an excuse); to skive or to bunk off (UK);
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(idiomatic) To skive, to not attend school when required to do so.
v
To spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important.
n
(Britain, informal) An act of avoiding lessons or work.
v
(UK, informal) To skive; to play truant; to slack off.
n
The act of avoiding an obligation or responsibility.
v
To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
v
(dated) To shirk; to neglect one's work.
n
(Canada, US) The situation where a second effort fails to live up to the relatively high standards of the first.
v
(UK, slang, dated) Synonym of play the wag (“to play truant from school”)
v
(transitive) To cast aside or reject, and thus make a waif.
adj
Given to wilful, perverse deviation from the expected norm; tending to stray.
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