hooky player
- noun
- Informal
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fugado
- Back in high school, he had a reputation as the class hooky player.
Examples
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The school caught a few hooky players this week.
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The principal warned the hooky player that repeated absences would lead to consequences.
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Teachers worked hard to keep every hooky player in class and focused on their studies.
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Don't be a hooky player!
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He was known as a frequent hooky player, often skipping school to hang out with friends.
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The teachers organized a meeting to discuss how to help students who were hooky players.
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After his long absences, the school counselor called him out for being a chronic hooky player.
Synonyms
7
6.3
A student who stays away from school without permission
1
9.9
A student who stays away from school without permission
A person who often misses school or work on purpose
Antonyms
How Truant
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'hooky' (the act of skipping school) combined with 'player' (a person who does/plays) yields 'a person who plays hooky.' This is a productive agentive compounding pattern in English, so a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Hooky player comes from the old phrase play hooky, which means to skip school. One popular story says 'hooky' came from kids hiding in a small corner so teachers could not see them, so a hooky player is someone who stays away from school without permission, a 'truant'.