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absquatulate

[ab-skwoch-uh-leyt] / æbˈskwɒtʃ əˌleɪt /


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Other items which Sir William traces far include: absquatulate, anxious seat, slam bang, cinch, lengthy, maverick, rain check, barn stormer, cowcatcher, calamity howler, greased lightning, rambunctious.

From Time Magazine Archive

He turned round and, exercising his privilege as an "Old Boy," gruffly ordered us to "absquatulate," which means nothing worse than "scram."

From Time Magazine Archive

The way Jupiter Charity-Sanchez is now staring at the poster on her closet door—flushed cheeks, moist eyes, closed mouth—makes me want to absquatulate into a crevasse somewhere and perish.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

"People absquatulate from St. Helen's toward autumn, don't they?" she remarked.

From In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series by Coolidge, Susan

Ready to absquatulate all the dragons and rescue you.”

From The History of Mr. Polly by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

“He has absquatulated, and taken the specie with him:” absconded is a more classical word.

From Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected by Anonymous

When I told him, as an old soldier, that three trains might carry three thousand troops he absquatulated.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley

But I take no other mountainous and absquatulated grounds on this trial, and move that a quash be laid upon this indictment.

From The American Union Speaker by Philbrick, John D. (John Dudley)

You absquatulated, I presume; a levantular movement at midnight--ran away, hey?'

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

A part of the preceding delegation from Pennsylvania, finding the Declaration of Rights would be adopted, were seized with crown fits and nothing but absquatulating powders promised any relief to the spasmodic attack.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll



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