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Definition of Absquatulate
1. Verb. Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along. "The accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"
Specialized synonyms: Levant
Generic synonyms: Flee, Fly, Take Flight
Derivative terms: Absconder, Abscondment, Bolt, Decampment
Definition of Absquatulate
1. v. i. To take one's self off; to decamp.
Definition of Absquatulate
1. Verb. (context: intransitive slang) To leave quickly or in a hurry; to take oneself off; to decamp; to depart, flee, abscond. ¹
2. Verb. (context: intransitive) to abscond. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Absquatulate
Literary usage of Absquatulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"absquatulate—contd. 1845 " Money makes the mare go " is thus refined : " The
circulating medium compels the female nag to absquatulate. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"You'd thank me to absquatulate, as the Yankees say. ... "perambulate," absquatulate
would readily suggest itself in an effort to recall one or the other. ..."
3. The Poor Little Rich Girl: A Play of Fact and Fancy, in Three Acts by ELEANOR. GATES (1916)
"GWENDOLYN Then— would you please tell me, what is the meaning of absquatulate?
FATHER What, dear? GWENDOLYN absquatulate. » [Scratching his head. To MOTHER. ..."
4. Logopolis by Ezekiel Hildreth (1842)
"So our modern word absquatulate, is a very significant composition; although I
do not ... Thus the word absquatulate is composed of the preposition absque, ..."
5. The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the by Henry Louis Mencken (1921)
"In the 40's to absquatulate was in good usage, but it has since disappeared.
Most of the other inventions of the time, however, have to some extent survived ..."
6. Forty Years of American Life by Thomas Low Nichols (1874)
"Cut stick," and " absquatulate," are indigenous. A man cuts a stick when about
to travel. absquatulate comes from a or ..."
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