scat

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: scat

1	v	flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
2	n	singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: scat

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

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; flee, fly, take flight
run away quickly; skedaddle
run away, as if in a panic; break
make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing; stampede
run away in a stampede; abscond, absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off
run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; elope, run off
run away secretly with one's beloved; break loose, escape, get away
run away from confinement; high-tail
retreat at full speed; defect, desert
desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army

Type 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

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