SKEDADDLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skedaddle mean? 

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

1. a hasty flight

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

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

1. run away, as if in a panic

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKEDADDLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hasty flight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

escape; flight (the act of escaping physically)

• SKEDADDLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they skedaddle    ... he / she / it skedaddles   
Past simple: skedaddled   
Past participle: skedaddled   
-ing form: skedaddling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Run away, as if in a panic

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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

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 (flee; take to one's heels; cut and run)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s