Definition of SCAT

scat

Plural: scats

Noun

  • singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
  • A tax; tribute.
  • A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
  • Animal excrement; droppings, dung.
  • Heroin.
  • Whiskey.
  • Coprophilia, scatophilia.
  • A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
  • Scat singing.
  • Any fish in the family Scatophagidae

Verb

Verb Forms: scatted, scatting, scats

  • To leave quickly or run away.
  • flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
  • To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.
  • To leave quickly.

Intj

  • An imperative demand to leave, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.

Examples

  • After a blunder, the player wanted to SCAT from the Words With Friends game.
  • Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.
  • Scat! Go on! Get out of here!

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English scet, schat, from Old English sċeatt (“property, goods, owndom, wealth, treasure; payment, price, gift, bribe, tax, tribute, money, goods, reward, rent, a tithe; a piece of money, a coin; denarius, twentieth part of a shilling”) and Old Norse skattr (“wealth, treaure, tax, tribute, coin”); both from Proto-Germanic *skattaz (“cattle, kine, wealth, owndom, goods, hoard, treasure, geld, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *skatn-, *skat- (“to jump, skip, splash out”). Cognate with Scots scat (“tax, levy, charge, payment, bribe”), West Frisian skat (“treasure, darling”), Dutch schat (“treasure, hoard, darling, sweetheart”), German Schatz (“treasure, hoard, wealth, store, darling, sweetheart”), Swedish skatt (“treasure, tax, duty”), Icelandic skattur (“tax, tribute”), Latin scateō (“gush, team, bubble forth, abound”).

Synonyms

break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat singing, take to the woods, turn tail, feces, heroin, scag, shit, storm

Scrabble Score: 6

scat: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
scat: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
scat: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

scat: valid Words With Friends Word