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SHOO AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shoo away mean? 

SHOO AWAY (verb)
  The verb SHOO AWAY has 1 sense:

1. drive away by crying 'shoo!'play

  Familiarity information: SHOO AWAY used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHOO AWAY (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Drive away by crying 'shoo!'

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

shoo; shoo away; shoo off

Hypernyms (to "shoo away" is one way to...):

chase away; dispel; drive away; drive off; drive out; run off; turn back (force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody


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