When you scuttle, you move with quick anxious steps, like a bug running for cover when a light is turned on.
Use the word scuttle when you want to describe running or fast walking that’s characterized by short, hasty steps, like someone or something that tries to hurry — a person who is late for work scuttling through a crowd of slow-moving pedestrians — but can't. It is also found in these well-known lines from T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": "I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."
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an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
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container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire
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to move about or proceed hurriedly
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