Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive, originally US, often imperative) To leave in a hurry; to go away.
2. (MLE, slang) A gun, firearm.
3. (transitive) To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
4. (intransitive) Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
5. (also attributively) A shutdown of a nuclear reactor (or, by extension, some other thing), often done rapidly due to an emergency.
6. The device used to shut down a nuclear reactor; also, the button or switch used to initiate a shutdown.
7. (transitive, Derbyshire, Wales) To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.
8. (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

What are you kids doing on my lawn? Scram!

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

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

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

Jus' go on like we was gonna buck barley the rest of our lives, then all of a sudden some day we'll go get our pay an' scram outta here.

"You scram out of here!" she admonished me fiercely. "Get out, or I'll scream so loud I'll wake the whole house up! You—you Peeping Tom!"

One day he packs in here with a new convertible, tells me he's moving out and scrams. Never give me a dime.

George was going to Haiti and he knew Lee would feel that the one man who took an interest in him was scramming out the door.

Word Forms

• scrams
• scramming
• scrammed
• scraming
• scramed
• SCRAM

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Use scram when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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