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Meanings of play hookey in inglês

To not go to class without permission.

      Usage of play hookey in inglês
      1
      Instead, he'd play hookey for the day, and go off by himself.
      The god project
      2
      The only way you can manage will be to play hookey from church.
      The Butterfly House
      3
      Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good time.
      The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
      4
      How these trout streams used to lure him to play hookey!
      Our Friend John Burroughs
      5
      I might be able to play hookey for an hour.
      Under the dome: a novel
      6
      They followed the little boys and girls on their way to church lest they play hookey.
      The Story of Mankind
      7
      Did you play hookey and get mugged?
      The waste lands
      8
      But I will, if I have to p-p- play hookey from school, and s-s-stay up here right along!
      Chums of the Camp Fire
      9
      And I've made you play hookey-fromhome!
      Openings in the Old Trail
      10
      He would not play hookey, even when his sober judgment told him it was the most profitable thing he could do.
      Sketches New and Old
      11
      Neither were they generally known as "chums," or comrades, who might have entered into an unhallowed combination to " play hookey."
      Tales of Trail and Town
      12
      I had the sudden, liberating sense of playing hookey on a school day.
      Carrion comfort
      13
      He is really playing hookey, though not for his own pleasure.
      Sunny Boy and His Playmates
      14
      You must have thought he was some Sunday-school kid playing hookey from school.
      Big city girl
      15
      Been playing hookey from momma, leaving off your panties like the big girls do.
      Highways in Hiding
      16
      But he was only a sulky schoolboy then, playing hookey.
      Bloom of Cactus
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      Play hookey through the time