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playing hooky

adjective as in truant

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

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

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

But how does taking a “mental health day,” which Americans traditionally have construed as a “winkwink, nudge-nudge” excuse for playing hooky, improve mental health?

In 1934, beachcombers and schoolboys playing hooky started stumbling across mutilated bodies around the city.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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