play hooky

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See hooky for its origin; the construction of the phrase is in the same vein as play truant.

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play hooky (third-person singular simple present plays hooky, present participle playing hooky, simple past and past participle played hooky)

  1. (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);
    Plenty of people played hooky from work to go see the movie on opening day.

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