skedaddle
verb (used without object)
to run away hurriedly; flee.
have skedaddled
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present perfectof skedaddle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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One of the few positives is most investors seem to have skedaddled already.
From Reuters ● Feb. 11, 2022
Not but that I was up to it all the time, or else I should have skedaddled; for this place was bound to be as dull as ditchwater.”
From More Bywords by Charlotte Mary Yonge
"He came in and lit the gas; if he'd been in it, he'd have skedaddled with the rest."
From The Triple Alliance Its trials and triumphs by Harold Avery
All these maids will have skedaddled before either the sergeant or the doctor can turn up.
From A Traitor's Wooing by Headon Hill
Well," remarked Max, who was examining the dead reptile, "this one didn't, so I reckon they must have skedaddled off in the bushes.
From The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island by Lawrence J. Leslie
