plays the wag
play the wag (English)
Verb
play the wag (third-person singular simple present *es, present participle *ing, simple past and past participle *ed)
(idiomatic, UK, slang, dated) To play truant (be absent from school without permission).
1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, Briston: J. W. Arrowsmith, Chapter , p. 284,[1]
[…] that unaccountable luck that appears to always wait upon a boy when he plays the wag from school, and goes out fishing on a sunny afternoon, with a bit of string tied on to the end of a tree.
Synonyms
hop the wag
wag it
