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  • By the time it regains any awesomeness, it will be like shouting, "Twenty-three skiddoo!" at someone, which is I guess sort of the bee's knees, but for awhile there, not so much

    mrissa: Use "Unchained Melody" in a love scene next. Please. It'll be great. mrissa 2010

  • By the time it regains any awesomeness, it will be like shouting, "Twenty-three skiddoo!" at someone, which is I guess sort of the bee's knees, but for awhile there, not so much.

    mrissa: Use "Unchained Melody" in a love scene next. Please. It'll be great. mrissa 2010

  • By the time it regains any awesomeness, it will be like shouting, "Twenty-three skiddoo!" at someone, which is I guess sort of the bee's knees, but for awhile there, not so much.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway markgritter 2010

  • Speaks colloquial English he picked up from clients; hence expressions like "23 skiddoo" -- JUST JOKING!

    down again! 2006

  • Let's cut this tomfoolery and 86 skiddoo outta here.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2000

  • "I am wise; whenever he gets to doing that 'funny business' I'll skiddoo."

    The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler

  • Shakespeare on a hot skiddoo for the sand dunes, and when it comes to that poetry thing he thinks he can make Hank Longfellow beat it up a tree.

    Skiddoo! Hugh McHugh

  • Examples are no-siree and yes-indeedy, and the later kiddo and skiddoo.

    Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 4. Loan-Words and Non-English Influences Henry Louis 1921

  • Suppose someone should meet you in the middle of Herald Square, hand you a ring-tailed tiger, and then skiddoo.

    Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

  • I'd been making my rounds with the brass foundry, seeing that all the tramp chains were on, putting out the cat, and coming the "Shore Acres" act, when I sees something dark skiddoo across the court to where the

    Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

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