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skedaddle
/skɪˈdædəl/
verb 2noun 1
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2VERB + SKEDADDLE
got, let's
SKEDADDLE + NOUN
i'll
Definitions
verb
1
To move or run away quickly.
"Well," continued the youth, "lots of good-a-'nough men have thought they was going to do great things before the fight, but when the time come they skedaddled."
Looked up at your office and all of it empty and I nearly cried. Cigar guy, out viewing his big time display window comes across the street. Wants to know if he can help. Told him to mind his own business. You know what he said, sister if you got any connection with that guy, they caught up with him, so you better beat it. I said sic him Goliath. Did that guy skidaddle.
2
To spill; to scatter.
noun
1
The act of running away; a scurrying off.
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"Well," continued the youth, "lots of good-a-'nough men have thought they was going to do great things before the fight, but when the time come they skedaddled."
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Looked up at your office and all of it empty and I nearly cried. Cigar guy, out viewing his big time display window comes across the street. Wants to know if he can help. Told him to mind his own busi
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Then filled with inspiration he drove in his Buick, the busted muffler blasting in the country lanes and the great long car skedaddling dangerously on the curves. Lucky for the woodchucks they were al
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I've got to skedaddle or I'll be late.
Tatoeba · #149158305
I have to skedaddle.
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Let's skedaddle!
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