skedaddle
IPA: skˈidædʌɫ
noun
- (informal) The act of running away; a scurrying off.
verb
- (informal, intransitive, US) To move or run away quickly.
- (transitive, regional) To spill; to scatter.
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Examples of "skedaddle" in Sentences
- I have to skedaddle right now so can't contribute today.
- The ones I've seen give you a good once over, and skedaddle.
- That should have been Schiller's and Liley's cue to skedaddle.
- Milroy's "skedaddle" was even more disgraceful than that of Banks.
- And since, in his fright, he didn't "skedaddle" fast enough to suit them, they threw beets and all sorts of vegetables at him, vegetables that had been ripe a very long time.
- The family live a shiftless existence, ‘doing the skedaddle’ from place to place when the bills mount up, sleeping in cardboard boxes and finding their best food source in dustbin leftovers.
- * It may be interesting to note here that in all probability the word "skedaddle," about which there was some controversy during the war, came from the Virginia negro's use of "skaddle," which is a corruption of "scatter."
- * 1 It may he interesting to note here that in all probability the word "skedaddle," about which there was some controversy during the war, came from the Virginia negro's use of "skaddle," which is a corruption of "scatter."
- Their thanks was to kill both him and his dog and then skedaddle back to Mexico, which refuses to hand over murderers to the US until we promise not to mete out the same punishment to them that they meted out to their victims.
- That famous "skedaddle," as it was the fashion to call it, he frankly admitted, in his official report, began among the men of his brigade, and the "disorderly retreat" speedily became a humiliating rout, which only a few cool-headed officers, such as