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Skedaddle  v. i.  (past & past part. skedaddled; pres. part. skedaddling)  To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away. (Slang, U. S.)





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"Skedaddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... a shot, firing far over his head. Whoever it is, the report must make him skedaddle like hot cakes," he thought, for he could not bear the idea of doing a fellow human being any bodily harm, no matter whether he ...
— The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf • Captain Quincy Allen
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... lived in these houses, and all those damn little clerks that used to live down that way—they'd be no good. They haven't any spirit in them—no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other—Lord! What is he but funk and precautions? They just used to skedaddle off to work—I've seen hundreds of 'em, bit of breakfast in hand, running wild and shining to catch their little season-ticket train, for fear they'd get dismissed if they didn't; working at businesses they were afraid to take the trouble to understand; skedaddling back for fear they wouldn't be ...
— The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells
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Words linked to "Skedaddle" :   take to the woods, lam, break away, scarper, scat, flight, bunk, hightail it, fly the coop, run away, run, turn tail


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