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
scat (plural scats)
A tax; tribute.
(UK dialectal) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
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.
• (excrement): See feces
• (heroin): shit, scag; see also heroin
• (rain driven by wind): See storm
scat (plural scats)
(music, jazz) Scat singing.
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.
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.
From the taxonomic name of the family
scat (plural scats)
Any fish in the family Scatophagidae
• -cast, ACTs, ATCs, ATSC, Acts, CATs, Cast, Cats, STCA, TACS, TCAS, TCAs, TSCA, acts, cast, cats
Source: Wiktionary
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
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
