Example Sentences

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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 Adams, Andy

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 Landon, Herman

As far as I could make out, she had vamoosed without trying to hustle another sucker.

From Vigorish by Berryman, John