サボる (Saboru) is a Japanese godan verb meaning “to be truant, to slack off, to play hooky, to skip school”.
Meanings
- godan verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbto be truant; to slack off; to play hooky; to skip school; to cut class; to skip outfrom サボタージュ
Examples
昨日学校をさぼったの?
You played hooky yesterday?
トムはまた授業をさぼった。
Tom cut classes again.
仕事をサボったからクビになった。
He got the sack for slacking off at work.
Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).