no-show vs truant

no-show

noun
  • A person or group that does not show up. 

  • An absence; failure to show up or to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or a place of employment. 

verb
  • To fail to show up for something. 

truant

noun
  • One who is absent without permission, especially from school. 

verb
  • To play truant. 

  • To idle away; to waste. 

  • To idle away time. 

adj
  • Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty. 

  • Absent without permission, especially from school. 

How often have the words no-show and truant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )