| NOUN | act | scat, scat singing | singing jazz |
|---|---|---|---|
| VERB | motion | scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away | flee |
| Sounds | skae't | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | acrobat ... ziggurat: 63 rhymes with aet... | |
| Meaning | singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | scat singing | |
| Broader | jazz | A genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles |
| singing, vocalizing | The act of singing / singing vocal music | |
| Spanish | scat | |
| Catalan | scat | |
| Meaning | flee; take to one's heels; cut and run. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away | |
| Narrower | flee, fly, take flight | run away quickly |
| skedaddle | run away, as if in a panic | |
| Broader | leave, go forth, go away | go away from a place |
| Spanish | correr, escapar, evadir, huir | |
| Catalan | escapar, escapolir-se, evadir, fugir | |
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