All absent without leave synonyms

adj absent without leave

• french leave — Sometimes Offensive. a departure without ceremony, permission, or notice: Taking French leave, he evaded his creditors.
• desertion — the act of deserting or abandoning or the state of being deserted or abandoned
• hooky — unjustifiable absence from school, work, etc. (usually used in the phrase play hooky): On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go fishing.
• truancy — the act or state of being truant.
• awol — If someone in the Armed Forces goes AWOL, they leave their post without the permission of a superior officer. AWOL is an abbreviation for 'absent without leave'.