"play the wag" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plays the wag",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "playing the wag",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played the wag",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played the wag",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      },
      "expansion": "play the wag (third-person singular simple present plays the wag, present participle playing the wag, simple past and past participle played the wag)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] :",
          "text": "[…] that unaccountable luck that appears to always wait upon a boy when he plays the wag from school, and goes out fishing on a sunny afternoon, with a bit of string tied on to the end of a tree.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To play truant (be absent from school without permission)."
      ],
      "id": "en-play_the_wag-en-verb-gfEWciai",
      "links": [
        [
          "play truant",
          "play truant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, UK, slang, dated) To play truant (be absent from school without permission)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hop the wag"
        },
        {
          "word": "wag it"
        },
        {
          "word": "skive"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dated",
        "idiomatic",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "play the wag"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plays the wag",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "playing the wag",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played the wag",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played the wag",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "play the wag (third-person singular simple present plays the wag, present participle playing the wag, simple past and past participle played the wag)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] :",
          "text": "[…] that unaccountable luck that appears to always wait upon a boy when he plays the wag from school, and goes out fishing on a sunny afternoon, with a bit of string tied on to the end of a tree.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To play truant (be absent from school without permission)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "play truant",
          "play truant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, UK, slang, dated) To play truant (be absent from school without permission)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dated",
        "idiomatic",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hop the wag"
    },
    {
      "word": "wag it"
    },
    {
      "word": "skive"
    }
  ],
  "word": "play the wag"
}