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🏃 To run away 🏃 A fast escape
skedaddle

skedaddle

7 9.3
A quick leaving to avoid danger or trouble
  • noun
  • /skɪˈdædəl/
  • Informal
translation icon : huida
  • After hearing the sound of footsteps approaching, their skedaddle was quick and chaotic.
  • Now, skedaddle
  • got to skedaddle
  • better skedaddle

Examples

  • As soon as the fire alarm rang, there was a mass skedaddle from the building by the frightened students.

  • We better skedaddle before they get here.

    Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

  • - You heard your mother, grab some road breakfast and skedaddle.

    Sinister (2012)

  • I still say we take the wagon, the horse, and whatever this is and skedaddle.

    Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)

  • We win, you see us coming, and we will keep coming, you Sharks make like the rats and skedaddle.

    West Side Story (2021)

  • I need to finish my work, quit lurking online at my desk, and skedaddle.

    Blog text (2)

  • I better skedaddle.

    Pearl (2022)

  • We gotta skedaddle.

    Los Angeles (2021)

  • Anywho, gotta skedaddle.

    The Three Stooges (2012)

  • The Knifethrower Dame reactivates the security shield as the gang skedaddles.

    Fiction book (1992)

Synonyms

scamper
vsskedaddle
3 4.3

A quick, playful run using small, hurried steps

is about hurried escape motivated by avoiding danger rather than play
skiddoo
vsskedaddle
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A sudden leaving to escape trouble

is specifically about leaving to avoid trouble or danger

Antonyms

to stay
∞ 1.0

To remain in one place and not leave

How Sudden

stampede
26 4.9
skedaddle
  • Informal
7 9.3
in a panic
19 4.3

Surface Forms

skedaddle singular
skedaddles plural

Etymology

Skedaddle as a noun comes from the same slang and names 'a hurried or disorderly departure'. Think of a crowd making a noisy dash for the exit—that noisy escape is a skedaddle.