absquatulate

Meaning

To leave quickly or in a hurry; to depart, flee.

Synonyms

make off

decamp

abscond

go off

bolt

run off

beetle

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dissolve

fleet

get

get out

go

leave

originate

pass away

plump out

pop off

remove

roar off

scram

set forth

set off

set out

skedaddle

start

start out

take leave

take off

vamoose

vanish

walk off

walk out

top out

skip town

part

walk out of

break away

clear

clear off

come away

depart

desert

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Translations

fliehen

fortlaufen

darsela a gambe

zijn biezen pakken

wegwezen

er vanonder muizen

'm smeren

er vanonder trekken

escapar

esconder-se

evada-se

davonmachen

fugir

Pronounced as (IPA)

/æb.ˈskwɑt͡ʃ.ʊ.leɪt/

Etymology

Attested since the 1830s in American English, a jocular mock-Latin word. Blend of abscond + squat + perambulate, as ab- (“away (from)”) (as in abscond) + squat + *-ulate (as in perambulate, properly -ate), hence meaning “get up (from a squat) and depart (quickly)”. The middle portion was perhaps influenced by -le (“(frequentative)”) and the dialectal term squattle (“depart”); compare contemporary skedaddle.