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scoot
noun- a foot-propelled scooter UK
- If you’re a scoot rider who gets his thrills from the trickier stunts, you’re definitely a Burly — Ben Sharpe, Scooter Crazy, p. 39, 2000
- a motorcycle US, 1943
A shortened “scooter”. - Curtis had a big tricked-out scoot, a Harley, he kept in the house. — Elmore Leonard, Split Images, p. 48, 1981
- I aimed my scoot toward the curb and hit the throttle. — Robert Lipkin, A Brotherhood of Outlaws, p. 4, 1981
- a dollar US
- I found the address of the cab company in the phone book, drove over, and left the dispatcher with an envelope containing fifty scoots. — James Ellroy, Brown’s Requiem, p. 16, 1981
- That you still owe me ten scoots on last year’s World Series pool. — James Ellroy, Blood on the Moon, p. 232, 1984
- an obnoxious drunk NEW ZEALAND
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 110, 1998
▶ on the scoot
on a drinking binge AUSTRALIA, 1916- SCOOT–To clear out; also continued bout of drunkenness. — Gilbert H. Lawson, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924
- But when he got on the scoot in town he was a bloody pest. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 105, 1979
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 79, 1988
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