awol
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
/ˈeɪ̯.wɔl/(US)
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/ˈeɪ̯.wɔl/(US) · /ˈeɪ̯.wɑl/(US) · /ˈʔɐ.wɔl/
Definition of awol
7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)Absent without official leave (permission).
“The Army had a lot of AWOL soldiers.”
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adj
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(not-comparable)Absent without official leave (permission).
“The Army had a lot of AWOL soldiers.”
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(alt-of, not-comparable)Alternative letter-case form of AWOL.
“Back in the city's littered bivouac he walked among the tenements of home like an awol private returning to barracks from which his old outfit had long ago convoyed and scattered for keeps.”
noun
- Absence without proper authority from the properly appointed place of duty, or from unit, organization, or other place of duty at which one is required to be at the time prescribed.
- A person who holds AWOL status.
- (broadly)Somebody who is absent without permission.
- (figuratively)Someone or something missing.
- (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of AWOL.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Acronym of absent without official leave, originally used in the United States military.
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