(US) A permit to be out of class during school hours.
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.
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(by extension, informal) An agreement to temporarily or conditionally relax monogamy in a relationship.
So these wives give them a "hall pass": for one week only, they get a bachelor holiday from married life, no questions asked.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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