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scoot
[skoot] 
Informal.–verb (used without object)
| 1. | to go swiftly or hastily; dart. |
–verb (used with object)
| 2. | to send or impel at high speed. |
–noun
| 3. | a swift, darting movement or course. |
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| scoot (skōōt) v. scoot·ed, scoot·ing, scoots v. intr. To go suddenly and speedily; hurry. v. tr. Upper Southern U.S. To squirt with water: "I know I wouldn't scoot down no hog with no hose" (Flannery O'Connor). Phrasal Verb(s): scoot over To move or slide to the side: Scoot that chair over. [Scots, to eject, squirt, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse skjōta, to shoot.] scoot n. Scoot comes from a Scandinavian verb related to the verb shoot and, borrowed into Scots dialect, originally meant "to squirt with water." Two derived senses, both intransitive verbs, have become even more common: "to slide suddenly across a surface" and "to move quickly": The mouse scooted across the floor. In the American Midlands, there is a phrasal verb scoot over, meaning, in its transitive sense, "to push (someone or something) to the side to make room." |
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Scoot
Scoot\, v. i. To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away. [Colloq. & Humorous, U. S.]
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Language Translation for : scoot
Spanish:
largarse,
German:
rasen,
Japanese:
急いで行く
scoot
1758, possibly from a Scand. source (cf. O.N. skjota "to shoot") related to shoot (q.v.). Scooter, the child's vehicle, first attested 1919.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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