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SKEDADDLE
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I. (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)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
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
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