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scat
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun scat has 1 sense
- scat(n = noun.act) scat singing - singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument; Array is a kind of singing, vocalizing, jazz
Verb scat has 1 sense
- scat(v = verb.motion) break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, take to the woods, turn tail - flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" is one way to go away, go forth, leave
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CIDE DICTIONARY
scat, interj.
Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat. [1913 Webster]
scat, n. [Icel. skattr.].
Tribute. Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
scat, n.
A shower of rain. Wright. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
scat, v. & int. colloq.
--v.intr. (scatted, scatting) depart quickly.
--int. go!
--v.intr. (scatted, scatting) depart quickly.
--int. go!
scat, n. & v.
--n. improvised jazz singing using sounds imitating instruments, instead of words.
--v.intr. (scatted, scatting) sing scat.
--n. improvised jazz singing using sounds imitating instruments, instead of words.
--v.intr. (scatted, scatting) sing scat.
Etymology
prob. imit.
THESAURUS
scat
baloney, bel canto, bilge, blah, blah-blah, bop, bosh, bravura, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, choral singing, coloratura, crap, croon, crooning, flapdoodle, folk singing, gas, guff, gup, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hot air, hum, humming, intonation, lyricism, malarkey, moonshine, operatic singing, piffle, poppycock, rot, scat singing, shit, singing, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, song, tommyrot, tonic sol-fa, tripe, vocal music, vocalization, warbling, wind, yodel, yodeling
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