Sekirov Dictionary

scat

/skæt/

noun 10
exclamation 1
verb 2
forms 3

noun10

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Animal excrement; droppings, dung.
- Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings. — 2018
Scat singing.
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(slang) Coprophilia, scatophilia.
- Enema queens, like scat queens, are really the scum of the earth. — 1988
Any fish in the family Scatophagidae.
(slang) Heroin.
A blow; a hit, an impact.
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(dialect, UK) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
- Low black Clouds on it being sopposed to prognosticate Rain in the Places beneath it, it has been a standing old Saw, When Haldon hath a Hat, Kenton beware a Skat. — 1759
A tax; tribute.
A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
(slang, no longer used) Whiskey.

exclamation1

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(informal) An imperative demand to leave, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.
- Scat! Go on! Get out of here!

verb2

To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.
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(informal) To leave quickly.
- Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.

forms

scatted · scatting · scats

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