SCAT (scatted, scatting)

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Irregular inflected forms: scatted    , scatting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does scat mean? 

• SCAT (noun)
  The noun SCAT has 1 sense:

1. singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument

  Familiarity information: SCAT used as a noun is very rare.

• SCAT (verb)
  The verb SCAT has 1 sense:

1. flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

  Familiarity information: SCAT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

scat; scat singing

Hypernyms ("scat" is a kind of...):

singing; vocalizing (the act of singing vocal music)

jazz (a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles)

• SCAT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they scat    ... he / she / it scats   
Past simple: scatted   
Past participle: scatted   
-ing form: scatting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

break away; bunk; escape; fly the coop; head for the hills; hightail it; lam; run; run away; scarper; scat; take to the woods; turn tail

Context example:

The burglars escaped before the police showed up

Hypernyms (to "scat" is one way to...):

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "scat"):

flee; fly; take flight (run away quickly)

skedaddle (run away, as if in a panic)

Sentence frames:

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