- wag it/off
- Verb. To play truant. Mainly adolescent use. E.g."Harry got caught by the head teacher wagging off from Maths."
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nick off — vb British a. to play truant. A synonym of bunk off, wag it or wag off. b. to skive off, do a runner ► She gone and nick d off … Contemporary slang
