vamose
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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And if we warn off the passengers from going this trip, and let the stage go up empty, Bob would suspect something and vamose.
From The Argonauts of North Liberty by Harte, Bret
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
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 Harte, Bret
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 Henry, O.
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
Next morning, bag and baggage, the Triangles vamosed.
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
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 Wheeler, Edward L.
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
But the wizard's vamosed; an' at last, when each is convinced tharof, the grown folks led by Squar' Alexanders reepairs back into the tavern an' takes another drink.'
From Wolfville Nights by Lewis, Alfred Henry
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
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
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
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