SCAT

scat, scat singing

(noun) singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument

scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away

(verb) flee; take to one’s heels; cut and run; “If you see this man, run!”; “The burglars escaped before the police showed up”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

scat (plural scats)

A tax; tribute.

(UK dialectal) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.

Etymology 2

Noun

scat (uncountable)

(biology) Animal excrement; droppings, dung.

(slang) Heroin.

(slang, obsolete) Whiskey.

(slang) Coprophilia.

(UK, dialect) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.

Synonyms

• (excrement): See feces

• (heroin): shit, scag; see also heroin

• (rain driven by wind): See storm

Etymology 3

Noun

scat (plural scats)

(music, jazz) Scat singing.

Verb

scat (third-person singular simple present scats, present participle scatting, simple past and past participle scatted)

(music, jazz) To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.

Etymology 4

Verb

scat (third-person singular simple present scats, present participle scatting, simple past and past participle scatted)

(colloquial) To leave quickly (often used in the imperative).

(colloquial) An imperative demand, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.

Etymology 5

From the taxonomic name of the family

Noun

scat (plural scats)

Any fish in the family Scatophagidae

Anagrams

• -cast, ACTs, ATCs, ATSC, Acts, CATs, Cast, Cats, STCA, TACS, TCAS, TCAs, TSCA, acts, cast, cats

Source: Wiktionary

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Scat, interj.

Definition: Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.

Scat, Scatt, n. Etym: [Icel. scattr.]

Definition: Tribute. [R.] "Seizing scatt and treasure." Longfellow.

Scat, n.

Definition: A shower of rain. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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