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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of absquatulate.

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Examples

  • The conversation just detailed was hardly ended before it reached Mr. Dillon's ears, who, at precisely nine o'clock the next morning, closed doors, and "absquatulated," as Billy Munford would say, alias "vamoosed," alias was "taken with a getting away."

    Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck 1864

  • Turned out the camp tender had absquatulated the premises due to a shortage of whiskey, leaving the camp unattended, a no no in bear country.

    Time for a good hunting story. We are camped under huge spruce trees on Afognak Island. It's raining hard but we are dry. 2009

  • Turned out the camp tender had absquatulated the premises due to a shortage of whiskey, leaving the camp unattended, a no no in bear country.

    Time for a good hunting story. We are camped under huge spruce trees on Afognak Island. It's raining hard but we are dry. 2009

  • A far juicier opportunity for recrimination occurred in March, when it was discovered that a company bookkeeper named F. M. Scott had absquatulated with some $25,000.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • The indignation aroused by his enormities has been too crushing to be borne by living man, though sheathed with the brass and triple cheek of Mark Twain…He has vamosed, cut stick, absquatulated; and among the pine forests of the Sierras, or amid the purlieus of the city of earthquakes, he will tarry awhile, and the office of the Enterprise will become purified…33

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • A far juicier opportunity for recrimination occurred in March, when it was discovered that a company bookkeeper named F. M. Scott had absquatulated with some $25,000.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • The indignation aroused by his enormities has been too crushing to be borne by living man, though sheathed with the brass and triple cheek of Mark Twain…He has vamosed, cut stick, absquatulated; and among the pine forests of the Sierras, or amid the purlieus of the city of earthquakes, he will tarry awhile, and the office of the Enterprise will become purified…33

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • I got a call around 1am – Spider Monkey, realizing I absquatulated, calling me LAME!

    El Vez, Xmas Eve, and shit barbylon 2002

  • I got a call around 1am – Spider Monkey, realizing I absquatulated, calling me LAME!

    El Vez, Xmas Eve, and shit barbylon 2002

  • We absquatulated together, disappearing for a few hours, his place, my old neighborhood.

    Part II (That's "2") - the nights, baby barbylon 2002

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