bunk off en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Meanings
- (literally) To leave.
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(UK, slang) To play truant
We all bunked off school yesterday to watch the football.
“You better be off to school now, young lady. You don’t want to be late…” “I suppose so,” mumbled Zoe. Sometimes she wondered why she didn’t just bunk off like so many of the others.
2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bunked off | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| bunked off | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| bunks off | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| bunking off | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Synonyms
bump off · play hooky · bunk out · on the hop · skive off · skive
Translations (3)
pl wagarować (to be absent from school without permission) · pl wyjść (to leave) · pl wychodzić (to leave)