bunk off

1. 1.

   play truant from work or school

   “The boy often plays hooky”

   Synonymsplay hooky

   Broadercut

   slang

Questions about bunk off

What does bunk off mean?

bunk off means "play truant from work or school".

What is another word for bunk off?

Close synonyms include play hooky. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bunk off a common word?

bunk off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.