skedaddle
(noun) a hasty flight
skedaddle
(verb) run away, as if in a panic
Source: WordNet® 3.1
skedaddle (third-person singular simple present skedaddles, present participle skedaddling, simple past and past participle skedaddled)
(informal, intransitive, US) To move or run away quickly.
(transitive, regional) To spill; to scatter.
• (move or run away quickly): flee, vamoose, scat, take off, make tracks, get lost, kick rocks, hightail; see also move quickly, rush or flee
skedaddle (plural skedaddles)
(informal) The act of running away; a scurrying off.
Source: Wiktionary
Ske*dad"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skedaddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Skedaddling.] Etym: [Of uncertain etymology.]
Definition: To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away. [Slang, U. S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
13 March 2025
(adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; “an accurate reproduction”; “the accounting was accurate”; “accurate measurements”; “an accurate scale”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
