Definition of Truant

Tru´ant
n.1.One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.
I have a truant been to chivalry.
- Shak.
To play truant
to stray away; to loiter; especially, to stay out of school without leave.
- Sir T. Browne
a.1.Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy.
v. i.1.To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.
v. t.1.To idle away; to waste.


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AWOL, Bowery bum, absent, absent without leave, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, clock watcher, derelict, devil, dodger, drifter, drunkard, eye-servant, goldbrick, goldbricker, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, hobo, human wreck, idler, loafer, loafing, lowlife, malingerer, malingering, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mucker, no-good, old soldier, pauvre diable, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, runaway, sad case, sad sack, shirk, shirker, shirking, skid-row bum, skulk, skulker, slacker, soldier, stiff, sundowner, swagman, tax dodger, tramp, vag, vagabond, vaurien, wastrel, welsher, worthless fellow, wretch


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