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Definition 2024

play_hookey

play hookey

English

Alternative forms

play hookie (rarer)
play hooky

Verb

play hookey

(intransitive, idiomatic) to be absent without permission, especially from school

Translations

To be absent without permission

Dutch: spijbelen (nl)
Finnish: lintsata (fi)
French: faire le mur (fr), faire l'école buissonnière (fr) (school)
German: schwänzen (de)

Portuguese: matar aula, cabular aula
Spanish: hacer novillos (es) (colloquial), hacer la cimarra (es) (colloquial; O. Arg. and Chile), pinteársela, irse de pinta (es) (Mexico)
Swedish: skolka (sv)