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Discover LudwigThe phrase "bunking off" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a colloquialism that means to skip or avoid something, usually school or work. Example: I couldn't believe it when I saw my classmates bunking off school to go to the beach.
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Who's going to give them detention for bunking off school?
Immediately, just by contemplating it, you feel like you're bunking off school.
Two schoolgirls running like wildfire, bunking off through dunes to the sea, breathless.
By 12, he was bunking off to play video games instead.
It is claimed he took to bunking off on Fridays to complete the manuscript.
While he diligently attended German classes, I spent my time bunking off at the cinema.
But, unbeknown to his parents, he was also bunking off school to watch films at a friend's house.
The idea that bunking off for spa days is slack, how else will they learn to exfoliate?
He once received a detention for bunking off to play an FA Youth Cup game for West Ham.
She says the notion of performing to rave reviews then bunking off is as ludicrous as it is insulting.
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There are more casual limb-jerkers (the bunking-off-school tale of Never Miss a Beat; the raucous Can't Say What I Mean) and many barrow-boy shout-a-longs (the dull Good Days Bad Days, the much jauntier Always Happens Like That, with Lily Allen on backing vocals).
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