All bolter synonyms

noun bolter

• deserter — A deserter is someone who leaves their job in the armed forces without permission.
• refugee — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
• outcast — a falling out; quarrel.
• recluse — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
• outlaw — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
• truant — a student who stays away from school without permission.
• absentee — An absentee is a person who is expected to be in a particular place but who is not there.
• quitter — a person who quits or gives up easily, especially in the face of some difficulty, danger, etc.
• stray — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
• fly-by-night — not reliable or responsible, especially in business; untrustworthy: a fly-by-night operation.
• waif — a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends.
• transient — not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory.
• vagabond — wandering from place to place without any settled home; nomadic: a vagabond tribe.
• derelict — A place or building that is derelict is empty and in a bad state of repair because it has not been used or lived in for a long time.
• runaway — a person who runs away; fugitive; deserter.
• hermit — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
• walkout — a strike by workers.
• dodger — a person who dodges.
• displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
• runagate — a fugitive or runaway.
• unescaped — to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail. Synonyms: flee, abscond, decamp.