hall pass

1. 1.

   written permission from a teacher for a student to be out the classroom and in the halls of the school

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Questions about hall pass

What does hall pass mean?

hall pass means "written permission from a teacher for a student to be out the classroom and in the halls of the school".

Is hall pass a common word?

hall pass 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.