play hooky

1. 1.

   play truant from work or school

   “The boy often plays hooky”

   Synonymsbunk off

   Broadercut

   slang

Questions about play hooky

What does play hooky mean?

play hooky means "play truant from work or school".

What is another word for play hooky?

Close synonyms include bunk off. 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 play hooky a common word?

play hooky is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.