Scram

Quick meaning: Scram is a verb meaning (intransitive, originally US, often imperative) To leave in a hurry; to go away.

Meaning

(intransitive, originally US, often imperative) To leave in a hurry; to go away.

More Meanings

1. (MLE, slang) A gun, firearm.
2. (transitive) To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
3. (intransitive) Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
4. (also attributively) A shutdown of a nuclear reactor (or, by extension, some other thing), often done rapidly due to an emergency.
5. The device used to shut down a nuclear reactor; also, the button or switch used to initiate a shutdown.
6. (transitive, Derbyshire, Wales) To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.
7. (transitive, US, mining, archaic) To mine for ore on a small scale, especially from mines previously been worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed.

Example Sentences

"Come on!" barked Harry. "Scram!"

What are you kids doing on my lawn? Scram!

The boy who was playing glowered at the intruder and growled. "Well, scram Kibitzer; scram."

Maybe when he found that Chet's jalopy was gone, he felt he'd better scram, and forgot the coat and hat.

Word Forms

• scrams
• scramming
• scrammed
• scraming
• scramed

Synonyms for scram

Depending on context, synonyms include get.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include get, skedaddle, vamoose, shoo, stopping, stop.

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