scram
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I go up onto the porch and my boys go up onto the porch and I tell the neighbor kid—Kyan, his name is—to scram.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2023
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
If an officer tells you to scram, “you can say, ‘It is my understanding I have every right to record this.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 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
It was a vanilla scram, with nothing remarkable to report.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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The good news is they scrammed, leaving me and my bike alone.
From Forbes ● May 5, 2015
Good Night Ladies thereupon scrammed to San Francisco for a week, clicked, stayed five.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Automatic systems would have "scrammed" the reactors, pushing control rods into the core and shutting them down.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The three active reactors at the plant had successfully scrammed.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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All three of the scrammed reactors had emergency cooling systems.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Another image from the series shows a group of children "scramming" for coins tossed to them after a wedding in one of Dundee's churches.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2010
A giant lobby clock hangs above the scattered people, the crowds scramming either to something or away from it—I can’t tell.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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We are scramming through that crowd like mad, and we are in the clear.
From Hoiman and the Solar Circuit by Dewey, Gordon
I was confronted with the alternatives of scramming or calling him a liar.
From The Old Martians by Graham, Roger Phillips