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Scat   /skæt/   Listen
Scat

noun
1.
Singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument.  Synonym: scat singing.
verb
1.
Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.  Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, take to the woods, turn tail.  "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"



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"Scat" Quotes from Famous Books



... and delicate in texture and colour. They had soft credulous mouths. Some glanced sideways at one another; some listened with a forced intentness. The expression of one good-looking boy, sitting in a corner scat, struck the bishop as being curiously defiant. He stood very erect, he blinked his eyes as though they smarted, his lips were compressed bitterly. And then it seemed to the bishop that the Angel stood beside him and ...
— Soul of a Bishop • H. G. Wells

... picked up little Billy and Fanny they were both unconscious. One of Billy's little arms was broken, so violently had he been flung about and against the iron bars of the scat. Fanny's injuries ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds

... Black Fan got opposite, he raised his arms as if to throw a stone or club at her, at the same time, in stentorian tones, yelling: "Git up! Git up! Git! Git out of that, you Black B—— h! Git up Fan. Gin her her head! Don't hold her, dam her! Let her go! Scat!" ...
— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field

... was out of the room; out of the house it might be, for all Molly cared, now she had her father's leave and command. Her bonnet and cloak were on in two minutes, and she was sitting by her father's side, the back scat shut up, and the light weight going swiftly and merrily bumping over the ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... may, according to our duty as kings at arms, versed in the laws of literary precedence, marshal her to the exact scat to which she is entitled, we must carry our ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay


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