scram

Meaning

Verb

To leave in a hurry; to go away.

Noun

A gun, firearm.

Noun

1. A shutdown of a nuclear reactor (or, by extension, some other thing), often done rapidly due to an emergency.
2. The device used to shut down a nuclear reactor; also, the button or switch used to initiate a shutdown.

Noun

1. A scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails.
2. A mine previously worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed, but which is still being mined on a small scale.

Synonyms

buzz off

vamoose

bugger off

skedaddle

emergency shutdown

fuck off

get

disappear

dissolve

escape

evict

fleet

get away

get lost

get off

get out

go off

make off

move away

pass away

plump out

pop off

run away

scat

snub

step aside

take off

cut and run

vanish

walk off

walk out

skip town

absquatulate

walk out of

beat it

beetle

🪲

break away

clear

clear off

cut out

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skɹæm/

Etymology

Probably either:
* a clipping of scramble by apocope; or
* from dialectal German schramm, the imperative singular form of schrammen (“to scratch, scrape”), from Late Middle High German schramm, schramme (“a graze, scratch”); further etymology unknown.