Definition of "play hookey" []

• To be absent without permission, especially from school (verb)

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• "Strangely enough, my cousin Vera enjoyed these Tuesday teatimes so much she’d find any reason to play hookey from school, just to be there and hear all the ugly things my mother and her half sister could say to one another."
• "They used to play hookey down at Stratton Falls, too, and get the green streaks in the old red sandstone rocks to make slate pencils of, trying them on their teeth to make sure they were soft enough not to scratch their slates."