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scram
1[ skram ]
verb (used without object)
- to go away; get out (usually used as a command):
I said I was busy, so scram.
scram
2[ skram ]
noun
- the rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor in an emergency.
verb (used with object)
- to shut down (a nuclear reactor) rapidly in an emergency.
scram
1/ skræm /
noun
- an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor
verb
- (of a nuclear reactor) to shut down or be shut down in an emergency
scram
2/ skræm /
verb
- informal.intr; often imperative to go away hastily; get out
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Example Sentences
First there's the SCRAM system, it automatically ejects the control rods into the core and shuts the plant down.
We ought to abandon the Glory to her place in the sun and scram out of here in the lifeboatsevery last person aboard ship.
Gibbering, I tried to get away, to flee or scram, but it was too late.
"Yeah—she'll be here, all right, thanks to you—scram—" answered Evelyn, as he went out the door.
To the girls she said, “Scram, if you want me downstairs in two minutes.”
"Maybe we had better scram out of here, Joe," Abdul suggested.
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