Wiktionary
a. (context military English) Failing to return from leave or liberty on time. alt. (context military English) Failing to return from leave or liberty on time.
Usage examples of "absent over leave".
Wells had been a full Yeoman of Signals up to two months previously: then he had been disrated, and sentenced to eighteen days detention, for (in the bleak words of King's Regulations & Admiralty Instructions) 'conduct prejudicial to good order and naval discipline in that he (a) was absent over leave 76 hours and 35 minutes, (b) did return on board drunk, (c) did resist the duty Petty Officer detailed to supervise him, and (d) did destroy by fire nine signal-flags, value 27s.
Would you feel ashamed of me if I went absent over leave just long enough to get busted back to corporal.
Would you feel ashamed of me if I went absent over leave just long enough to get busted back to corporal….