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▸ adjective: (specifically) Of a student: absent from school without permission.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless.
▸ noun: An idle or lazy person; an idler.
▸ noun: (specifically) A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel.
▸ verb: (intransitive) Also used with the impersonal pronoun it (dated): to shirk or wander from business or duty; (specifically) of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To idle away or waste (time).
Similar:
absent,
AWOL,
no-show,
nonattender,
hooky player,
absent without leave,
schoolless,
absentee,
adrift,
absent over leave,
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