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A kid who breaks a window with her baseball might decide to skedaddle before her neighbor comes home from work. Definition of skedaddle verb in Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'skedaddle.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. When you skedaddle, you leave very suddenly. 2018 Terry caught a screen-pass on the left side, broke a few tackles and skedaddled 58 yard toward glory.Īaron Carter,, 8 Sep. Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018 His wife has skedaddled, but his nosy neighbor (the delightful Diana Bang) is eager to clean his house and enable his quest to track down the woman who was once almost his adoptive sister. 2017 After the car rolled backwards into the street, the two guys inside the car skedaddled.ĭavid J. Smith Henderson, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. If you tell someone to skedaddle, you are telling them to run away or to leave a place quickly. Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 9 June 2019 Ron's wife, Jan, wanted to pack up and be ready to skedaddle.
Ford had skedaddled, leaving Perot and Dawkins to face the music.Ĭheryl Hall, Dallas News, 13 July 2019 At a news conference on Tuesday-three days before British Prime Minister Theresa May was set to skedaddle off the world stage forever-the president questioned whether anyone was less than thrilled at his presence. SI.com, 25 July 2019 Somewhere in the midst of all this, the Rev. Etymologists say there are a wide variety of influences that contributed to the makeup of the word 'skedaddle.' They believe this intransitive verb that means to 'move quickly' in English to be of British dialect and related to Old Norse as early as the late 1800s. 2020 Arsenal have officially confirmed the capture of St Etienne centre back William Saliba, with the Frenchman putting pen to paper on a five-year deal at the Emirates before skedaddling straight back to the Ligue 1 side on loan for 2019/20.
#SKEDADDLE MEANS DRIVERS#
Recent Examples on the Web Sedan drivers skedaddle like frightened children when this Ranger fills their mirrors.
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