Skedaddle

Quick meaning: Skedaddle is a verb meaning (informal, intransitive, US) To move or run away quickly.

Meaning

(informal, intransitive, US) To move or run away quickly.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, regional) To spill; to scatter.
2. (informal) The act of running away; a scurrying off.

Example Sentences

"Well," continued the youth, "lots of good-a-'nough men have thought they was going to do great things before the fight, but when the time come they skedaddled."

In the early 1960s, there were plenty of people still alive who had looted Europe in the Second World War, parked proceeds in Switzerland, and skedaddled to Argentina.

Then filled with inspiration he drove in his Buick, the busted muffler blasting in the country lanes and the great long car skedaddling dangerously on the curves. Lucky for the woodchucks they were already hibernating.

Looked up at your office and all of it empty and I nearly cried. Cigar guy, out viewing his big time display window comes across the street. Wants to know if he can help. Told him to mind his own business. You know what he said, sister if you got any connection with that guy, they caught up with him, so you better beat it. I said sic him Goliath. Did that guy skidaddle.

Word Forms

• skedaddles
• skedaddling
• skedaddled

Synonyms for skedaddle

Depending on context, synonyms include flee, hightail, skidoo, skitter, take off, vamoose.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scram, vamoose, flee, hie, break, scoot.

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