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View synonyms for play hooky

play hooky



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Idioms and Phrases

Be absent from school or some other obligation without permission, as in It was such a beautiful day that Herb played hooky from work . In this term, the noun hooky may have come from the phrase hook it , meaning “escape.” [Mid-1800s]
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Example Sentences

Supposedly playing hooky from filming a movie, he visits the walrus diorama at the Natural History Museum.

He works hard to please but likes his breaks and sometimes plays hooky.

Sunday’s show wasn’t the first time the Boss personally signed off on his fans playing hooky.

They worked or played hooky, they hid or revealed their feelings, they participated or declined to participate in the war to come.

Forty-eight hours later, we were playing hooky from work in favor of boozy Avra lunch.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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