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  • Truancy (redirect from Play truant)
    allows to prosecute truant students (under the age of 18), their parents, or both. Some countries, like Canada or Australia, reserve fines for truant minors...
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  • Playing Truant (Swedish: Skolka skolan) is a 1949 Swedish comedy film directed by Schamyl Bauman and starring Sickan Carlsson, Gunnar Björnstrand and Olof...
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  • house of his friend Eric Clapton, where Harrison had chosen to play truant for the day to avoid attending a meeting at the Beatles' Apple Corps organisation...
    67 KB (7,163 words) - 19:23, 29 May 2024
  • released on 14 December of the same year. The success of the first series led to a second being commissioned, which aired for another 6 episodes, all episodes...
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    album, Soul Punk, on October 18, 2011. It was preceded by the extended play, Truant Wave (2011). He toured in the US and Europe in support. The band returned...
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  • coarsely ground; see also grits play hooky to play truant from school; to cut class (UK also: skive, bunk off or playing wag or wagging off or mooching)...
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    Australian English full stop Play hooky (verb): To play truant from an educational institution. Equivalent to Australian English (to) wag Popsicle: Australian...
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  • I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad." His plan is to play truant, walk to the docks along the Liffey,...
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  • I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad." His plan is to play truant, walk to the docks along the Liffey,...
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  • Australian English full stop Play hooky (verb): To play truant from an educational institution. Equivalent to Australian English (to) wag Popsicle: Australian...
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  • scheduled for that afternoon which she often avoided attending, and so played truant for the rest of the school day, although it is not clear what evidence...
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  • gaai1, lit. 'to fall into the street') 1. To go broke. 2. Used to curse people. pon – (From Malay) Short form of 'ponteng'. To play truant. E.g. "Want...
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  • Miller) to help. Aaron is dating Andy's sister, Victoria, and he persuades her to play truant from school and steal from local shops. Cain reports Andy to social...
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    was ten. He was sent first to Orchard Street Foundation School in South Hackney but spent much of his time playing truant and wandering around London...
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  • Independent. 2014-01-31. Retrieved 2021-05-15. "Bring It On: Yoo Ha's Tribute to Bruce Lee's Fans". international.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-03. Ayguavives...
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    possessive forms. The verb mitch is very common in Ireland, indicating being truant from school. This word appears in Shakespeare (though he wrote in Early...
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  • Luis Cantero was born in Madrid, close to a famous bullring. As a boy he would play truant from school, preferring to spend time partying with Gypsies imitating...
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  • [off] (informal) to sneak off, avoid work; to play truant (US: play hookey) slag * (slang) a promiscuous woman; US: slut, skank slag off * to badmouth; speak...
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    pictures with a camera concealed in his cigarette lighter. Ann claims to be playing truant from school. When Ann clumsily drives a Vespa through Roman traffic...
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    father due to military service, and he had social difficulties at school. From age 13, he used alcohol and marijuana and also started playing truant from school...
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