Concept cluster: Activities > Truancy
adv
In a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.
v
(intransitive, Northern Ireland) To play truant.
v
To be truant; to skip school.
v
(Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
v
(Britain, slang) To play truant
v
(slang, Northern Ireland) To play truant
n
Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course
n
(US) One who flunks an academic course.
v
(Ireland) play truant
n
(slang) Truancy, especially from school.
n
Absence from school or work; truancy.
n
A truant; one who is absent without permission.
n
(Ireland, UK regional) Playing truant.
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);]
v
(idiomatic, UK, slang, dated) To play truant (be absent from school without permission).
v
To be absent from school without permission.
v
(transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To be a truant from (school).
n
A truant; one who is absent without permission, especially from school.
v
(intransitive, slang, Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
v
(transitive, Utah, Idaho) To play truant from (school).
n
The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties, especially from attending school.
n
Obsolete form of truant. [One who is absent without permission, especially from school.]
adj
Absent without permission, especially from school.
n
truancy
adv
Like a truant; in idleness.
n
truancy
n
truancy
v
(UK, dialectal, Yorkshire) To play truant.
v
(UK, Australia, slang) To play truant from school.

Note: Concept clusters like the one above are an experimental OneLook feature. We've grouped words and phrases into thousands of clusters based on a statistical analysis of how they are used in writing. Some of the words and concepts may be vulgar or offensive. The names of the clusters were written automatically and may not precisely describe every word within the cluster; furthermore, the clusters may be missing some entries that you'd normally associate with their names. Click on a word to look it up on OneLook.
  Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Compound Your Joy   Threepeat   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Help


Our daily word games Threepeat and Compound Your Joy are going strong. Bookmark and enjoy!

Today's secret word is 7 letters and means "Relating to marshes or swamps." Can you find it?