vamoose
/vəˈmuːs
/verb [no object] informal
Depart hurriedly: we’d better vamoose before we’re caught...
- The clerk reached for the phone; I hitched my pants and vamoosed.
- But hanging around to the bitter end is sending good money after bad; better to cut your losses and vamoose.
- When the lions come a running, the grazers close ranks and vamoose.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Spanish vamos 'let us go'.
The word vamoose used as an informal word for ‘depart’ is from Spanish vamos ‘let us go’.