skedaddle

But even the vague threat of personal conflict and humiliation was enough to make him skedaddle down to Mar-a-Lago when it was time to go.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2023

There’s no reason pickleballers couldn’t play at the park when children are in school and then skedaddle in the afternoon, she said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022

In such a situation, taking all this in, a sane character would run, flee, skedaddle, vamoose, make tracks and call in the cops, or maybe an airstrike.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2021

He told the cars to skedaddle, which they were already going to do because their protest was about to start.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2020

I skedaddle down the steps crosst the yard to Miss Lizzy’s.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

At barely an hour, it skedaddles in time to leave you with a sheepish smile.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

And then he skedaddles before the bill comes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2018

How long till Kelly skedaddles back to the comfort of a football-factory situation?

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2015

Terriffic burst down the right by Richards, who skedaddles past his Traore and fires a fine low cross towards the near post.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2010

The retreats were called "skedaddles," a term invented at the time by some wag.

From The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country by Joseph Barry

What if instead of staying in the tomb, she skedaddled with a posy to the Renaissance club scene in Paris and found a new love?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2023

Usually the sheep walked away or skedaddled before any physical altercation actually broke out.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2022

One of the few positives is most investors seem to have skedaddled already.

From Reuters ● Feb. 11, 2022

Just then Quayle approached, and Paul skedaddled back to his seat.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2018

I skedaddled out of there before I had a chance to ask him about Wonders or about his cousin Holt.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

Shame on you for skedaddling anonymously and cowardly away.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

Johnson said she’s taken the middle seat on flights to make up for skedaddling on her fiancé—one of many favors Precheckers told me they perform to mitigate some of the inequities.

From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2020

The team stunk, top to bottom and James had to escape the torment, skedaddling to Miami.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2018

The electric carts that you will soon see skedaddling around the lawns, meadows and playgrounds are just the latest in a decades-long transformation of trash management.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2017

But the jealous proprietors demurred, fearing that the movement might not be simultaneous and that thus a flap-jack rupture might ensue, followed by possible skedaddling of the shrewd operators bearing off the spoil.

From Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 by John Lockwood