play hooky
Verb
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Verb
- (idiomatic, US) To play truant; to avoid (informally: skip) school, work, or other duties (stay away from these without permission or an excuse); to skive (UK).
- Plenty of people played hooky from work to go see the movie on opening day.
- French: faire l'école buissonnière, faire le mur
- German: schwänzen, blaumachen
- Italian: bigiare, marinare la scuola
- Portuguese: matar aula, cabular aula, cabular (Brazil), gazetear, gazear
- Russian: прогу́ливать
- Spanish: (Spain) hacer novillos, (Argentina) hacerse la rata, capar clase (Colombia), chacharse (Bolivia), comer jobo (Puerto Rico), correrse la clase (Northern Spain, specifically Cantabria), echarse la pera (Ecuador), fullarse de clase (Spain's Balearic Islands), fumarse la clase (Spain), hacer borota (Northern Spain, specifically Navarra), hacer campana (Northeastern Spain), hacer la chancha (Chile), hacer chicarra (Spain, Basque Country), hacer la cimarra (Chile), hacer fuchina (Central Eastern Spain), hacer monta (Western Spain, specifically Extremadura), hacer pellas (Spain, Madrid), hacer la rabona (Argentina), hacerse la chupina (Northern Central Argentina), hacerse la piarda (Spain, specifically Malaga), hacerse la rata (Argentina), ratearse (Argentina), hacer la vaca (Peru), hacerse la yuta (Northwestern Argentina), hacer pira (Spain, Basque Country), hacer pirola (Northern Spain), irse de capiusa (Guatemala), irse de pinta (Mexico), pinteársela (Mexico), jubilarse (Venezuela), latar (Northwestern Spain), palmar a clase (Northwestern Spain), pavearse (Panama), pegarse la huyona (Spain, Canary Islands), pelarse la clase (Central Eastern Spain), tirarse la pera (Peru), hacer la choca (Chile)
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