vamose
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Example Sentences
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"I'll receive him while you two vamose."
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Jack Gurney, you'd best vamose this ranch to-night.
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"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."
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Ev’rybody please vamose–’ceptin’ the Perfessor.”
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At last the schoolmaster, in desperation, translating his arguments into silver, called to mind a word from some American novel, and commanded his attendant to "vamose."
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