| 释义 |
skedaddle; skiddadle
verb
to leave in a hurry US, 1861
Originally US Civil War slang, with claims of Swedish and Danish origins probably disproved.- Are we all chasing our backsides round the mulberry bush, while Kilroy skidaddles to Timbuctoo via the London Underground? — Troy Kennedy Martin, Z Cars, p. 149, 1962
- “The ball is at Christmas. Now scadoodle!” We scadoodled. — Frederick Kohner, The Affairs of Gidget, p. 76, 1963
- Let’s skidaddle down the nearest tube [London underground] and get cracking. — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- Our buckboad was skedaddling down a narrow dusty road a short piece from home when a rut in the road flung off a bag of fertilizer. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Doom Fox, p. 117, 1978
- Pink Fairies: Smart Brits originally headed by widely published social criticker Mick Farren (who’d skedaddled by the time their first LP came out). — Chuck Eddy, Stairway to Hell, p. 44, 1991
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