Definition of skedaddle
: to leave immediately : run away, scram
I've got to skedaddle or I'll be late. Whenever there was work to be done, he skedaddled. … of the five hundred and sixteen thousand immigrants who had come to Quebec since 1969 some three hundred and twelve thousand took a good look around and skedaddled.— Mordecai Richler … Vietnam, a country that has been virtually closed to foreigners since the last American helicopter skedaddled from the embassy rooftop in 1975.— Stephen O'Shea
especially
: to flee in a panic
Little gray lizards skedaddle from our path. — Wells Tower Though penguins can't outrun a lion, they can skedaddle on land if they really need to. — Diane Ackerman … they took their money and skedaddled as the housing market collapsed. — Bill Saporito
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The first known use of skedaddle was in 1859
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