Usually means: Skipping school without permission intentionally.
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  1. play truant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. play truant: Merriam-Webster
  3. play truant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. play truant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. play truant: Wiktionary
  6. play truant: Dictionary.com
  7. play truant: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. play truant: Legal dictionary

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▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be absent from school without permission.

Similar:
play hooky, beak off, play the wag, truant, sack off, bug out, plunk, sluff, play hookie, bunk off, more...

Opposite:
attend, show up, be present, participate

Phrases:
to play truant, more...

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Similar:
play hooky, beak off, play the wag, truant, sack off, bug out, plunk, sluff, play hookie, bunk off, more...

Opposite:
attend, show up, be present, participate

Phrases:
to play truant, more...



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