Like a missing GI seeing nothing in lawbreaking? (4)
I believe the answer is:
awol
'like a missing gi' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'nothing in lawbreaking?' is the wordplay.
'nothing' becomes 'O' (looks like zero - 0).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'lawbreaking?' becomes 'awl' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'o' put inside 'awl' is 'AWOL'.
'seeing' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for awol that I've seen before include "Missing without permission" , "Take unofficial leave (abbrev.)" , "Truant (or just missing)" , "Not present when supposed to be" , "Absent without permission, in short" .)