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play hooky
verb as in escape
verb as in lam
Strong matches
Weak matches
- bail out
- break out
- burst out
- cut and run
- cut loose
- duck out
- fly the coop
- get away
- get away with
- get off
- give someone the slip
- go scot-free
- make a getaway
- make getaway
- make off
- make oneself scarce
- run away
- run off
- run out on
- slip away
- steal away
- take a powder
- take flight
- take it on the lam
- take on the lam
- work out of
- wriggle out
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Supposedly playing hooky from filming a movie, he visits the walrus diorama at the Natural History Museum.
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He works hard to please but likes his breaks and sometimes plays hooky.
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Sunday’s show wasn’t the first time the Boss personally signed off on his fans playing hooky.
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They worked or played hooky, they hid or revealed their feelings, they participated or declined to participate in the war to come.
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Forty-eight hours later, we were playing hooky from work in favor of boozy Avra lunch.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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