play truant
play truant verb: to be absent from school without permission.
Verb
play truant (third-person singular simple present plays truant, present participle playing truant, simple past and past participle played truant)
- To be absent from school without permission.
- [S]ince I pluckt Geeſe, plaide Trevvant, and vvhipt Top, I knevv not vvhat 'tvvas to be beaten, till lately.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
play truant meaning in Malayalam, Tagalog, Arabic and Indonesian
play truant in Malayalam
- stay away from school, truant, skive (off)
- പള്ളിക്കള്ളനായി കഴിയുക, സ്കൂളിൽ പോകാതെ കടന്നുകളയുക, സ്കൂളിൽ പോകാതിരിക്കുക, സ്കൂളിൽപോകാൻ മടി കാണിക്കുക, ജോലിക്ക് ഹാജരാകാതെ കഴിക്കുക, ഉഴപ്പുക
play truant in Tagalog
- to be absent from school without permission
- magbulakbol, maglakwatsa
play truant in Arabic
- to be absent from school without permission
- تَسَرَّبَ tasarraba
play truant in Indonesian
- to be absent from school without permission
- bolos, tuang
More languagesFewer languages
- play truant in Persian
- غیبت کردن ġeybat kardan
- play truant in Vietnamese
- trốn học, sủi
Synonyms of play truant
23 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- dog
- go on the hop
- go on the lang
- go on the mitch
- hop the twig
- hop the wag
- jig
- kid
- mitch
- pip
- play hooky
- play the wag
- plunk
- sag off
- scull
- skip
- skip school
- skive
- skive off
- sluff
- twag
- wag
- wag it
Forms of play truant
| third-person singular present | plays truant |
|---|---|
| present participle | playing truant |
| past participle | played truant |
| past | played truant |
Questions about play truant
- What does play truant mean?
- Play truant means to be absent from school without permission.
- What is play truant in Malayalam?
- Play truant in Malayalam is പള്ളിക്കള്ളനായി കഴിയുക, സ്കൂളിൽ പോകാതെ കടന്നുകളയുക, സ്കൂളിൽ പോകാതിരിക്കുക. See Play truant meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is play truant?
- Play truant is a verb.
- What is the past tense of play truant?
- The past tense of play truant is played truant.
Words near play truant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: play truant (page history and authors); play truant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-play truant.wav.
Cite this entry: “play truant.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/play_truant. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.