vamose
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Example Sentences
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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
"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 Fleming, May Agnes
One afternoon I ordered Atasca to vamose, and got up and dressed carefully.
From Options by Henry, O.
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."
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright
Hee's got for do something for make the vamose.
From The Pride of Palomar by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
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