Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hall pass

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.65 in modern English

Syllables: hal-l -pass
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A permit to be out of class during school hours.

American usage

noun

An agreement to temporarily or conditionally relax monogamy in a relationship.

Informal

Example Sentences

"To freely move around the school when you should be in class requires an official hall pass. Those are guarded like government-issued official travel documents. Most teachers don't just hand them out to anybody who asks."
"The story kicks in when a relationship guru (Joy Behar) suggests that the wives give their husbands a week off from marriage — a hall pass — which, after not much anguish, they do."
"So these wives give them a "hall pass": for one week only, they get a bachelor holiday from married life, no questions asked."
"Shane explains: “I’ve got a hall pass to sleep with other women but that wasn’t the original intention."

Etymology

From hall + pass.

Usage

American usage
Informal

Inflected Forms

hall passes (plural) hallpass (alternative) hall-pass (alternative)

Questions

What does hall pass mean?: A permit to be out of class during school hours.
Where does hall pass come from?: From hall + pass.

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