Synonyms

vamoose

[va-moos] Origin

va·moose

[va-moos] verb, va·moosed, va·moos·ing. Slang.
verb (used without object)
1.
to leave hurriedly or quickly; decamp.
verb (used with object)
2.
to leave hurriedly or quickly from; decamp from.

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Origin:
1830–40; < Spanish vamos let us go, imperative 1st person plural of ir to go
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vamoose (vəˈmuːs)
 
vb
slang chiefly (US) (intr) to leave a place hurriedly; decamp
 
[C19: from Spanish vamos let us go, from Latin vādere to go, walk rapidly]

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vamoose
"to decamp," 1834, from Sp. vamos "let us go," from L. vadamus, from vadere "to go, to walk," from PIE base *wadh- "to go" (cf. O.E. wadan "to go," L. vadum "ford").
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