vamoose
verb (used without object)
to leave hurriedly or quickly; decamp.
had vamoosed
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past perfectof vamoose.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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As far as I could make out, she had vamoosed without trying to hustle another sucker.
From Vigorish by John Berryman
Just about midnight a bunch of range cattle ran into us, and before you could say Jack Robinson, our dogies had vamoosed the ranch and were running in half a dozen different directions.
From The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams
All he knew was that Granger had vamoosed, and he thought he was doing the gang dirt and pulling some kind of treacherous stuff.”
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
