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1. One who is absent from school without permission
   - hooky player [N. Amer, informal], skiver [Brit]
    
2. Someone who shirks duty
   - no-show, nonattender

1. Absent without permission
   "truant schoolboys";
   - awol

1. Be absent from work or school without permission
   "The boy often truants";
   - bunk off [Brit, informal], play hooky [N. Amer, informal], skive [Brit, informal], bunk [Brit, informal], mitch [Ireland, informal], wag [Austral, NZ, informal], play truant

Derived forms: truants, truanting, truanted

See also: absent

Type of: absentee, cut, offender, skip, wrongdoer

Encyclopedia: Truant