vamoosev.
/vəˈmuːs/, /vaˈmuːs/, U.S. /væˈmus/, /vəˈmus/ colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).
1. intransitive. To depart, make off, decamp, disappear.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > hastily or suddenly
fleec825
warpa1400
wringc1400
bolt1575
decamp1751
mog1770
to hop the twig1797
to take (its, etc.) wing1806
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
vamoose1834
fade1848
skedaddle1862
to beat it1906
blow1912
to hop it1914
beetle1919
bug1950
jet1951
α.
β. 1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 114 Vamous, to go, or be off.1862 Illustr. London News 24 May 540/3 Guess, they'd better varmoose.1874 M. Collins & F. Collins Frances III. 80 If I can get money down for some of my gold bonds, we'll vamoos at once.1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xvi. 254 Well, of course he can vamoose with the entire speculation, if he chooses.1895 J. G. Millais Breath from Veldt vi. 118 The hunter was voted a fraud..and was..told to ‘Vamoose’.1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling ix. 82 The river was going downhill, and the country growing more and more similar in appearance to the Lachlan, before it vamoosed in the marshes.1958 ‘J. Reeves’ Mulbridge Manor xii. 155 ‘See anyone?’ asked Winston. ‘Not a soul. Whoever it was has vamoosed.’1827 W. Clarke Every Night Bk. 30 They have done more foolish things in their day—but vamos.]
1834 Knickerbocker 4 455 Be off, you good-for-nothing rascals—vamos!
1848 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Its occupants..forthwith vamosed with their baggage.
1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. iv. 112 I makes a spring in after him..caught him by the hair of his head, just as he was vamosing.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. i. 19 Has he vampoosed with the contents of a till, that he wishes so for solitude?
1857 G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) 448 A 'cute Help, who had vamposed into the swamp with the family plate.
1893 J. H. McCarthy Red Diamonds I. 173 The fifth name was that of Ratt Gundy, opposite to which Seth Chickering had written the one word: ‘Vamosed’.
2. transitive. To decamp or disappear from; to quit hurriedly. Frequently in to vamoose the ranch. U.S.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away from [verb (transitive)] > go away from suddenly or hurriedly
fleeOE
to give the bag to1582
fling1588
vamoose1847
jump1875
skip1884
to leave (a person) flat1902
blow1912
scarper1937
1847 ‘M'C’ Let. 2 Apr. in Rough & Ready Ann. (1848) 245 On the morning after I wrote the letter to father..they..stacked their arms and colors, and ‘vamossed the ranch’.
1852 Marryat Gold Quartz Mining 8 On the old Californian principle of ‘making a “pile” and vamosing the ranche’.
1857 in Thornton Amer. Gloss. Another pair of jail-birds have vamosed the log jail at Jacksonville.
1888 E. Custer Tenting on Plains (1893) i. 32 I got that far when the eyes of the old galoots started out of their heads, and they vamoosed the ranche.
Derivatives
vaˈmosing n. (also vaˈmoosing)
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > going away suddenly or hurriedly
scamper1697
decampment1706
helter-skelter1713
scamperinga1774
run1799
leg-bail1808
bolting1820
bolt1831
absquatulation1839
vamosing1862
hot foot1869
1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. v. 75 Or, when the vamosin' come, ever to find [etc.].
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