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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To go suddenly and speedily; hurry.
  2. v. Upper Southern U.S. To squirt with water: "I know I wouldn't scoot down no hog with no hose” ( Flannery O'Connor).
  3. scoot over To move or slide to the side: Scoot that chair over.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To flow or gush out suddenly and with force, as from a syringe.
  2. To run, fly, or make off with celerity and directness; dart.
  3. To eject with force, as from a syringe; squirt: as, to scoot water on one. Also skite.
  4. n. A sudden gust or flow, as of water; hence, a quick, light motion as of something suddenly ejected from a confined place: as, a sudden scoot.
  5. n. A syringe or squirt.
  6. n. A scoter: as in the names batter-scoot, bladder-scoot, and blatherscoot of the ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida, in Virginia.
  7. n. Same as scout.
  8. To send or impel (something) with a quick, light motion at high speed.
  9. n. Same as dray, 3.

Wiktionary

  1. n. slang A dollar.
  2. n. slang a scooter.
  3. v. this sense?) To walk fast; to go quickly; to run away hastily.
  4. v. To ride on a scooter.
  5. v. of an animal To move with the forelegs while sitting, so that the floor rubs against its rear end.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. Colloq. & Humorous, U. S. To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. run or move very quickly or hastily

Etymologies

  1. Scots, to eject, squirt, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse skjōta, to shoot. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. dart

hypernyms (12)

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  1. rush
  2. hie
  1. speed
  2. belt along
  1. step on it
  2. race
  1. rush along
  2. pelt along
  1. hasten
  2. hotfoot
  1. cannonball along
  2. bucket along

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  1. plunge

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rhymes (56)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Beirut
  2. Bute
  3. Butte
  4. Jute
  5. Root
  6. Shute
  7. absolut
  8. acute
  9. astute
  10. boot
  11. brut
  1. brute
  2. bute
  3. butte
  4. cahoot
  5. chute
  6. commute
  7. compute
  8. coot
  9. cute
  10. dilute
  11. dispute
  1. disrepute
  2. enroute
  3. flute
  4. fruit
  5. groot
  6. hirsute
  7. hoot
  8. impute
  9. jute
  10. loot
  11. lute
  1. minute
  2. moot
  3. mute
  4. newt
  5. permute
  6. pollute
  7. pursuit
  8. pute
  9. recruit
  10. refute
  11. repute
  1. reroute
  2. root
  3. route
  4. salute
  5. shoot
  6. smoot
  7. stroot
  8. subacute
  9. suit
  10. toot
  11. uproot
  1. voute

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. scoot
  1. skeet
  1. scooter
  1. scutter

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