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hall passes

hall passes is the plural of hall pass.

Meaning of hall pass

Noun

hall pass (plural hall passes)

  1. (US) A permit to be out of class during school hours.
    • To freely move around the school when you should be in class requires an official hall pass. Those are guarded like government-issued official travel documents. Most teachers don't just hand them out to anybody who asks.2018, Erica Catherman, Jonathan Catherman, The Girls' Guide to Conquering Middle School, Revell, →ISBN
  2. (broadly, informal) An agreement to temporarily or conditionally relax monogamy in a relationship.
    • The story kicks in when a relationship guru (Joy Behar) suggests that the wives give their husbands a week off from marriage — a hall pass — which, after not much anguish, they do.2011 February 24, Manohla Dargis, “Man-Child in the Promised Land, for a Whole (Pant! Pant!) Week”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about hall passes

What is hall passes the plural of?
Hall passes is the plural of hall pass.

Words near hall passes in the dictionary

  1. Hall of Famers
  2. hall of mirrors
  3. hall of residence
  4. hall of shame
  5. hall pass
  6. hall passes
  7. hall porter
  8. hall porters
  9. hall test
  10. hall tests
  11. hall tree

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