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SCAT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: scatted    , scatting   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument

Synonyms:

scat; scat singing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("scat" is a kind of...):

singing; vocalizing (the act of singing vocal music)

jazz (a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

Example:

The burglars escaped before the police showed up

Synonyms:

break away; bunk; escape; fly the coop; head for the hills; hightail it; lam; run; run away; scarper; scat; take to the woods; turn tail

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "scat" is one way to...):

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "scat"):

flee; fly; take flight (run away quickly)

skedaddle (run away, as if in a panic)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

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