skedaddle

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“
Now both of you slip through this hole and down the ladder and quietly skedaddle--quick--come But the guards Just brass it out and walk by them.

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  1. intransitive verb Informal To leave hastily; flee.

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  • Call this damned half-robot off now and skedaddle, will you? —  Kenneth Bulmer - Worlds for the Taking
  • Her intentions were clear enough, though: If those hoods didn't skedaddle, they'd soon find their “d ms” filled with lead. —  EQMM,February2008
  • Once the oil companies had been made to skedaddle, Chavez turned his attention to nationalizing the assets of other industries and related corporations, such as Mexican-based cement producer Cemex (NYSE: CX). —  The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning
  • If all these students skedaddle - as they should, or file for bankruptcy - which they should otherwise, because there is no incentive for the debt laden millions this goverment has foisted upon us to work f a pension elite, or even to stay in the country - who else will pay the tax revenues to do so. —  Fool.co.uk - Headlines
  • They were startled when a big hand dropped on each of their heads You kids skedaddle," ordered a big man. —  Across the Fruited Plain
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Of obscure provincial origin. It has been variously referred to a Scandinavian source, to Celtic, and even to Greek σκεδαννύναι, scatter; but the word is obviously of a free and popular type, with a freq. termination -le; it may have been based on the earlier form of shed (Anglo-Saxon sceádan), pour, etc.: see shed.
  2. from skedaddle, v.
 

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