Scoot

English

Noun

Scoot (plural Scoots)

1. (slang) A dollar.
2. (slang) a scooter.

   I got a new scoot yesterday. It's a Gamma.

Verb

Scoot (third-person singular simple present Scoots, present participle Scooting, simple past and past participle Scooted)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) To walk fast; to go quickly; to run away hastily.

   They scooted over to the window.

2. To ride on a scooter.

Thesaurus

barrel, beeline, bolt, bustle, career, dart, dash, flee, fleet, fling, fly, haste, hasten, hie, highball, hump, hump it, hurry, hurtle, hustle, make haste, post, race, run, rush, scamper, scour, scramble, screw, scud, scurry, scurvy, scuttle, shin, shoot, skedaddle, skip, sprint, step on it, tear, zip

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːt

Quotations

• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

Derived terms

• scoot over

Anagrams

• coots