vamose
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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One afternoon I ordered Atasca to vamose, and got up and dressed carefully.
From Options by O. Henry
You must vamose the ranch afore they lay hold of you and have you up before the alcalde.
From The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales by Bret Harte
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
Yer goin' to shut up your desk and your books and this hull consarn inside of an hour, and vamose the ranch.
From Openings in the Old Trail by Bret Harte
Jack Gurney, you'd best vamose this ranch to-night.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
I am a friend, and your cruel captors have vamosed.
From Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills by Edward L. Wheeler
"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
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
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
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
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
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