Synonyms for skedaddle
- verb
- noun
Most common
make tracks flee scuttle scurry rush high-tail haul one's ashes decamp
Definitions
- v. 1
To move or run away quickly.
- n. 1
The act of running away; a scurrying off.
Related words
- Other spellings
- skidaddle
Forms
- Plural
- skedaddles → take-offs, run-aways…
- Past participle
- skedaddled
e.g. skedaddled → fled, scuttled, scurried, scampered…
Example sentences
- flee Learn that of foreigners, but don't flee your own.
- scuttle Crawl forward is done much more agilely - scuttle like a cockroach!
- scurry Shadowy figures scurry across the street.
- rush She started early in order to avoid the rush hour.
By length
- 4 letters
- rush1, flee1, scat1
- 6 letters
- scurry2, decamp2, hurtle2, skidoo
- 7 letters
- scuttle2, scamper2, skitter, vamoose
- 12 letters
- absquatulate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (scurry2 = 2 syllables).