scram

Example Sentences

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Other Welsh words in the latest update of the OED include nobbling and scram.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025

If a cop tells you to scram, “You can say, ‘It is my understanding I have every right to record this.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2021

Ferraro walked the same tightrope that tripped up Hillary Clinton when she wondered if she should wheel around in that debate and tell the creeping Donald Trump to scram.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2020

The future D.C. mayor was 16 years younger than Rutherford, who remembers her father, Joe, ordering him and his friends to scram when they played ball in a nearby field.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2015

Jus’ go on like we was gonna buck barley the rest of our lives, then all of a sudden some day we’ll go get our pay an’ scram outa here.”

From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck