- a variation of vamoose.
vamose
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Jack Gurney, you'd best vamose this ranch to-night.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
I think I’ll stay with you till after dinner, Aunt Maggie—I suppose I may call you that—and then I’ll vamose the ranch.”
From The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters by Burton Donnel Hughes
And if we warn off the passengers from going this trip, and let the stage go up empty, Bob would suspect something and vamose.
From The Argonauts of North Liberty by Bret Harte
"Then why don't you quit shooting and vamose?"
From Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur by Edward C. Taylor
"Why, you see, Miss Darrell, the fact was, I was what you call expelled,—which being translated from the original Greek into plain slang, the chosen language of young America,—means I was politely requested to vamose."
From The Actress' Daughter A Novel by May Agnes Fleming
"If the Apaches have vamosed, Coronado might join us," suggested Thurstane.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
"They certainly have vamosed this ranch," remarked Patsy.
From With Links of Steel by Nicholas Carter
The lady-like guest soon vamosed to England, where he became the lawful spouse of the Hon. Mr. C——, the brother to Lord F——d.
From Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Sir J. M. (James MacPherson) Le Moine
So they vamosed arter jest seein' my double-barrel, an' they hain't tried it on since.
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
The boy took on wuss an' wuss, an' now he's vamosed.
From Romance of California Life by John Habberton
Things do not please me here just now and I am going to settel it by vamosing.
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
So I makes a spring in after him in no time, caught him by the hair of his head, just as he was vamosing, and swam ashore with him.
From Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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