Synonyms of the word scat


SCATBUNK - ESCAPE - JAZZ - LAM - LEAVE - RUN - SCARPER - SINGING - VOCALIZING

scat

  • n. A tax; tribute.
  • n. (Britain dialectal) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
  • n. (biology) Animal excrement; dung.
  • n. (slang) Heroin.
  • n. (slang, obsolete) Whiskey.
  • n. (slang) Coprophilia.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
  • n. (music, jazz) Scat singing.
  • v. (music, jazz) To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative…
  • v. (colloquial) To leave quickly (often used in the imperative).
  • v. (colloquial) An imperative demand, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.

bunk

  • n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
  • n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
  • n. (military) A cot.
  • n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  • n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  • v. To occupy a bunk.
  • v. To provide a bunk.
  • n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
  • adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
  • v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
  • v. (dated) To expel from a school.

escape

  • v. (intransitive) To get free, to free oneself.
  • v. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
  • v. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
  • v. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted…
  • v. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
  • n. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
  • n. (computing) escape key.
  • n. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
  • n. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
  • n. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
  • n. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
  • n. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
  • n. (obsolete) A sally.
  • n. (architecture) An apophyge.

jazz

  • n. (music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American…
  • n. Energy, excitement, excitability.
  • n. The substance or makeup of a thing.
  • n. Unspecified thing(s).
  • n. (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
  • n. Nonsense.
  • v. To destroy.
  • v. To play (jazz music).
  • v. To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
  • v. To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite.
  • v. To complicate.
  • v. (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
  • v. (intransitive) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
  • v. To distract/pester.

lam

  • n. Used in the expression on the lam to mean "on the run" (after the dated verb), when a person is fleeing…
  • v. (transitive) To beat or thrash.
  • v. (intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.
  • n. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).

leave

  • v. (heading, transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.
  • v. (heading) To depart; to separate from.
  • v. (heading) To transfer something.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
  • n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
  • n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether…
  • n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
  • n. (dated or law) Permission.
  • n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
  • v. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
  • v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
  • v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.

run

  • v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
  • v. (fluids) To flow.
  • v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
  • v. (social) To carry out an activity.
  • v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
  • v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
  • v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
  • v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
  • v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
  • v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
  • v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
  • v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
  • v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
  • v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
  • v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
  • v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
  • v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
  • v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
  • v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
  • v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
  • v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
  • v. To have growth or development.
  • v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
  • v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
  • v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
  • v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
  • n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
  • n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
  • n. A pleasure trip.
  • n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
  • n. Migration (of fish).
  • n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
  • n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
  • n. A (regular) trip or route.
  • n. The route taken while running or skiing.
  • n. The distance sailed by a ship.
  • n. A voyage.
  • n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
  • n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
  • n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
  • n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
  • n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
  • n. A trial.
  • n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
  • n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
  • n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
  • n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
  • n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
  • n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
  • n. Any sudden large demand for something.
  • n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
  • n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
  • n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
  • n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
  • n. (cricket) A point scored.
  • n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
  • n. Unrestricted use of.
  • n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
  • n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
  • n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
  • n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
  • n. A pair or set of millstones.
  • n. (video games) A playthrough.
  • n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
  • n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
  • n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
  • n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
  • adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
  • adj. Cast in a mould.
  • adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
  • adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

scarper

  • v. (Britain, slang) To run away; to flee; to escape.

singing

  • n. The act of using the voice to produce musical sounds; vocalizing.
  • n. (informal) Disclosing information, or giving evidence about another.
  • n. (US) A gathering for the purpose of singing shape note songs.
  • adj. (music) Smooth and flowing.
  • adj. (of a kettle etc.) Producing a whistling sound due to the escape of steam.
  • v. present participle of sing.

vocalizing

  • v. present participle of vocalize.
  • n. vocalization.

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