AWOL
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- adjective
- /ˈeɪˌwɔl/
- Jargon
:
ausente sin permiso
- The soldier was declared AWOL after failing to report for duty on Monday.
- AWOL or absent
- still AWOL
I looked at the MPI was like, do I look like an AWOL soldier?
- I looked at the MPI was like, do I look like an AWOL soldier?
- And I'm saying text your cousin that went AWOL, say hey PP, I need a couple of fucking nades, brah.
- So are they compliant in the issue or they just, I, I think, I think Donald Trump was just, you know, you, you know, the, the old term, he was AWOL on this.
- We didn't we weren't really AWOL, right?
- If people go AWOL and shout, yeah, they do also, we do all sorts of stuff.
Examples
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Em's been AWOL for a good month.
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Or an AWOL soldier who reads the classics in his spare time?
Fiction book (2000) -
Well, a man may have been picked up for being AWOL and I may be able to explain the circumstances, sir.
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- You are AWOL, soldier.
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You are AWOL, and you are in violation of American policy.
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I just told you he's AWOL.
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First time you've all been AWOL?
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We talked about theater, the war, and when we'd last seen our AWOL fathers.
Fiction book (2002) -
So he's either AWOL or there's been a mistake.
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- He's AWOL.
Synonyms
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Being away from an assigned place or duty without permission
A person who is away from military duty without permission
Surface Forms
Etymology
AWOL started as the letters A.W.O.L. for the phrase absent without leave, a military way to say 'without permission'. So when someone is described as AWOL, they are absent from duty without permission.