TAKE A POWDER

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disappear without notifying anyone (idiom)

Synonyms:

skip town; take a powder

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "take a powder" is one way to...):

disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

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