scoot down

scoot down

1. To move slightly down the length of something, especially while seated. Hey, scoot down so I can fit another chair at the table. Would you mind scooting down? I'd like to sit here too.
2. To move or cause to move someone or something that is on the ground slightly down the length of something. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "scoot" and "down." Help me scoot this table down so everyone will be able to fit in the kitchen. Just scoot the kids down a little bit so that you have room to sit there.
3. To travel to something or some place very quickly or briefly. I just need to scoot down to the bank after lunch—I shouldn't be gone for more than half an hour. We all scooted down after lunch to watch the parade on Main Street.
See also: down, scoot
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

scoot down (to some place)

to go (down) somewhere in a hurry. I want you to scoot down to the store and get me a dozen eggs. Okay? I'll scoot down as soon as I finish reading the newspaper.
See also: down, scoot
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • be down to (do something)
  • be down to something
  • close down
  • close down and shut down
  • come a gutser
  • come down in buckets
  • be down to (one)
  • be down to somebody/something
  • bounce up and down
  • bucket down
References in periodicals archive
His new favourite activity is scooting, so we try to scoot down to the park most days and play a bit of football.
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Treeing dogs work best late in the season when squirrels will scoot down the trees to eat and the branches are bare.
IOne to scoot down the wing, the other to thrust through the middle of the park and a third just to admire from a distance like a work of art.
Maybe builders should scoot down to the local greasy spoon when nature calls, but there's always a danger they could be overcome with 'full English' fumes and end up staying for a fry-up?
People think the Curragh is more straightforward, but a lot of the Irish Derby course is on the turn and it can be hard to make up ground when the leaders scoot down the hill into the straight.
Welker can suck defenses in with his quick outs and hooks, and Thomas can make them pay with a scoot down field for a bomb.
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How many times have you had to repeatedly tell a patient to scoot down to the end of the examination table?
And then skipper Ben Phillips gave Hunt enough room to scoot down the right wing and plunge over in the corner to give his side a 12 point lead.
Gather and share as much information as possible during the 10-minute interval before the clanging bell would again signal them to scoot down one chair and repeat the exercise.
The genius of O'Neill is that he writes in layers--they aren't happy accidents, which they may be with some playwrights, who may allow you to scoot down this alleyway that the writer never intended.
They scoot down the Fosse Way or along the M40 and avoid the little hamlet completely.
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