skedaddle

“You’ve got about thirty minutes. Better skedaddle before Lily sees you, or she’ll hug on you 'til the car is half out of the driveway.”

On Sunday, Mr. Trump will skedaddle on over to Sioux City, Iowa, where he will headline an event and “deliver remarks” at the classic Orpheum Theater, built in 1927, with the capacity to seat 2,650 people.

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.

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

His supporters are pointing to convention that departing prime ministers loiter until their replacement rolls up, rather than instantly skedaddle to make way for a caretaker PM.