play truant (third-person singular simple present plays truant, present participle playing truant, simple past and past participle played truant)
- (intransitive) To be absent from school without permission.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:play truant
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 58, column 1:[S]ince I pluckt Geeſe, plaide Trevvant, and vvhipt Top, I knevv not vvhat 'tvvas to be beaten, till lately.
be absent from school without permission
- Arabic: تَسَرَّبَ (tasarraba)
- Catalan: fer campana (ca) (Catalonia), fer pila (Lleida), fer fugina (Valencia)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 逃學／逃学 (zh) (táoxué), 曠課／旷课 (zh) (kuàngkè), 逃課／逃课 (zh) (táokè), 翹課／翘课 (zh) (qiàokè)
- Czech: být za školou, chodit za školu (cs)
- Danish: skulke, pjække
- Dutch: spijbelen (nl)
- Finnish: lintsata (fi)
- French: faire l’école buissonnière (fr), sécher (fr)
- Galician: latar (gl)
- German: die Schule schwänzen
- Greek: κάνω κοπάνα (káno kopána)
- Hebrew: הבריז (he) (hivriz)
- Hungarian: lóg (hu)
- Indonesian: bolos (id), tuang (id) (colloquial)
- Italian: bigiare (it), marinare (it), segare (it)
- Japanese: 学校をサボる (gakkō o saboru)
- Korean: 결석(缺席)하다 (ko) (gyeolseokhada)
- Maori: takē kura
- Persian: غیبت کردن (fa) (ğeybat kardan)
- Polish: wagarować (pl)
- Portuguese: matar aula (pt), cabular (pt)
- Romanian: chiuli (ro), trage chiulul
- Russian: прогу́ливать (ru) impf (progúlivatʹ), прогуля́ть (ru) pf (proguljátʹ)
- Slovak: chodiť poza školu
- Slovene: špricati
- Spanish: hacer pellas (es), hacer novillos (es), colgar clase, fumarse una clase
- Swedish: skolka (sv)
- Tagalog: magbulakbol, maglakwatsa
- Ukrainian: сачкувати (sačkuvaty), прогулювати (prohuljuvaty)
- Vietnamese: trốn học, sủi (vi)
- Welsh: chwarae triwant, mitsio (cy), sgeifio
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