- a variation of vamoose.
vamose
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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“It is the judgment of this court that you vamose the camp . . . in the customary way, sir, in the customary way.”
From Lost Face by Jack London
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
I mout as wal vamose, 's long as I've hove in my rations.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
Now if you're just havin' a little fun with me, Shark, put your gun up, and we'll get on Bolivar and vamose.
From Whirligigs by O. Henry
The boys weren't over-keen about staying with the herd and they can vamose.
From Rimrock Trail by Joseph Allan Dunn
Long before we got back to the horses, Shipley had "vamosed" into the mountain, carrying his light luggage with him; only some blank, envelopes were lying about, evidently dropped in the hurry of removal.
From Border and Bastille by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
"They certainly have vamosed this ranch," remarked Patsy.
From With Links of Steel by Nicholas Carter
Well, they’re gone, by thunder! every mother’s son of them clean vamosed from the place, and not a grease-spot left of them.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid
But when he seen ’em comin’, he swore in a deputy–quick–and vamosed.
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Eleanor Gates
Next morning, bag and baggage, the Triangles vamosed.
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
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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