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skedaddle
ske·dad·dle S0445400 (skĭ-dăd′l)intr.v. ske·dad·dled, ske·dad·dling, ske·dad·dles Informal To leave hastily; flee. [Probably alteration of British dialectal scaddle, to run off in fear, from scaddle, wild, thievish, skittish, from Middle English scathel, wild, harmful, probably of Old Norse origin; akin to skadha, to hurt, scathe.]skedaddle (skɪˈdædəl) vb (intr) to run off hastilyna hasty retreat[C19: of unknown origin]ske•dad•dle (skɪˈdæd l) v. -dled, -dling, n. Informal. v.i. 1. to run away hurriedly; flee. n. 2. a hasty flight. [1860–65, Amer.; compare dial. (Scots, N England) skedaddle to scatter] ske•dad′dler, n. skedaddle Past participle: skedaddled Gerund: skedaddling
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skedaddle | skedaddle |
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I skedaddle | you skedaddle | he/she/it skedaddles | we skedaddle | you skedaddle | they skedaddle |
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I skedaddled | you skedaddled | he/she/it skedaddled | we skedaddled | you skedaddled | they skedaddled |
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I am skedaddling | you are skedaddling | he/she/it is skedaddling | we are skedaddling | you are skedaddling | they are skedaddling |
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I have skedaddled | you have skedaddled | he/she/it has skedaddled | we have skedaddled | you have skedaddled | they have skedaddled |
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I was skedaddling | you were skedaddling | he/she/it was skedaddling | we were skedaddling | you were skedaddling | they were skedaddling |
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I had skedaddled | you had skedaddled | he/she/it had skedaddled | we had skedaddled | you had skedaddled | they had skedaddled |
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I will skedaddle | you will skedaddle | he/she/it will skedaddle | we will skedaddle | you will skedaddle | they will skedaddle |
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I will have skedaddled | you will have skedaddled | he/she/it will have skedaddled | we will have skedaddled | you will have skedaddled | they will have skedaddled |
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I will be skedaddling | you will be skedaddling | he/she/it will be skedaddling | we will be skedaddling | you will be skedaddling | they will be skedaddling |
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I have been skedaddling | you have been skedaddling | he/she/it has been skedaddling | we have been skedaddling | you have been skedaddling | they have been skedaddling |
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I will have been skedaddling | you will have been skedaddling | he/she/it will have been skedaddling | we will have been skedaddling | you will have been skedaddling | they will have been skedaddling |
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I had been skedaddling | you had been skedaddling | he/she/it had been skedaddling | we had been skedaddling | you had been skedaddling | they had been skedaddling |
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I would skedaddle | you would skedaddle | he/she/it would skedaddle | we would skedaddle | you would skedaddle | they would skedaddle |
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I would have skedaddled | you would have skedaddled | he/she/it would have skedaddled | we would have skedaddled | you would have skedaddled | they would have skedaddled | ThesaurusNoun | 1. | skedaddle - a hasty flightescape, flight - the act of escaping physically; "he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication of his guilt" | Verb | 1. | skedaddle - run away, as if in a panicfly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail, run, bunk, break away, escape - flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" |
skedaddleverbInformal. To leave hastily:bolt, get out, run.Informal: clear out, get, hotfoot.Slang: hightail, scram, vamoose.Idioms: beat it, hightail it, hotfoot it , make tracks.Translationsdarsela a gambehet op een lopen zettenvluchtenwegstuivenskedaddle
skedaddleTo leave or depart promptly or at once. We'd better skedaddle if we're going to catch our flight! You need to skedaddle before the boss catches you snooping around her office!skedaddle (skəˈdædlæ) in. to get out; to leave in a hurry. (Folksy.) Well, I’d better skedaddle on home. skedaddle
Synonyms for skedaddleverb to leave hastilySynonyms- bolt
- get out
- run
- clear out
- get
- hotfoot
- hightail
- scram
- vamoose
Words related to skedaddlenoun a hasty flightRelated Wordsverb run away, as if in a panicRelated Words- fly the coop
- head for the hills
- hightail it
- lam
- run away
- scarper
- scat
- take to the woods
- turn tail
- run
- bunk
- break away
- escape
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