Meaning

A tax; tribute..

Definitions by Sense

1. A tax; tribute.
2. (Shetland) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
3. (biology) Animal excrement; droppings, dung.
4. (slang) Heroin.
5. (slang, obsolete) Whiskey.
6. (slang, pornography) Coprophilia, scatophilia.
7. (uncommon) A blow; a hit, an impact.
8. (UK, dialect) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.

Example Sentences

2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.

They turned to polar bear feces, or scat, as it is commonly called. […] She and Quinoa [a dog] worked with Dr. Rockwell to collect and study samples of polar bear scat for several years and found that the bears were eating lots of geese.

Enema queens, like scat queens, are really the scum of the earth.

“[…] I hear he’s into S&M and scat and all kinds of kinky shit. […]”

In short, when venturing into the realm of extreme fetish, ensure you have an extreme understanding of a partner’s boundaries before laying down a plastic tarp for scat play.

... a shot rang out, followed immediately by the "scat" of a bullet against the rock behind which he lay concealed. A tramp of heavy Galloway brogans was heard, and a half-hearted kicking about among the heather bushes, and at last[…]

... the soft and pitying eyes seemed to shame him, "like a scat in the face," he said to himself. But who was he that he should care for any blow across the cheek now, if it was not hard enough to hurt?

Low black Clouds on it being ſoppoſed to prognoſticate Rain in the Places beneath it, it has been a ſtanding old Saw, When Haldon hath a Hat, Kenton beware a Skat.

Word Forms

• scats
• scatt
• skatt
• skat
• scatting
• scatted

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