Meanings (ES + gloss)
capar clase • chacharse • colgar clase • escaquearse • hacer novillos • hacer pellas • pirar
To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
Truancies, rather bewilderingly, have risen among children on the programme; the government hopes this is because children skive more as they get older.
Work experience as an arsey teenager is pretty straightforward: disappear into the storeroom, smoke a few cigarettes, text your mates and watch the minute hand tick slowly by. If t…
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