vamose
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Hee's got for do something for make the vamose.
From The Pride of Palomar by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
"Then why don't you quit shooting and vamose?"
From Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur by Taylor, Edward C.
Crocodiles can cry when they are hungry, but when they do it's time to vamose the poke-loken,1 that's a fact.
From Nature and Human Nature by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
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
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 Harte, Bret
The boy took on wuss an' wuss, an' now he's vamosed.
From Romance of California Life by Habberton, John
Next morning, bag and baggage, the Triangles vamosed.
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
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 Reid, Mayne
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 Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir
So they vamosed and were much obliged for the opportunity, leaving Kedzie to fling her arms about her mother with spontaneous filial affection, and to present Dyckman to her with genuine pride.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
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 Wister, Owen
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 Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
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