
1) AWOL from school 2) British slang for a Jew 3) Failure to attend 4) Nonattendance 5) Slang for truancy 6) Students play it 7) Truancy 8) Truant 9) What some students may play 10) What truants play
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1) Truancy
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[nickname] Hooky (or spelling variations thereof) is the nickname of: ...
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• (a.) Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks. • (v. t.) A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to run away, to play truant.
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Hook'y adjective Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
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Hook'y noun [ Written also
hookey .] [ Confer
Hook ,
transitive verb , 3.] A word used only in the expression
to play hooky , to run away, to play truant. « This talk about boys . . . playing ball, and '
hooky ,' and marbles, was all moonshine.&...
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Hooky is slang for truancy.
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unjustifiable absence from school, work, etc. (usually used in the phrase play hooky): On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go fishing.
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