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), blaumachen (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)

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