Usually means: Hurry away quickly; flee fast.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word skedaddle:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. skedaddle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. skedaddle: Merriam-Webster
  3. skedaddle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. skedaddle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. skedaddle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. skedaddle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Skedaddle, skedaddle: Wordnik
  8. skedaddle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. skedaddle: Wiktionary
  10. skedaddle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. skedaddle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. skedaddle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. skedaddle: Dictionary.com
  14. skedaddle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Skedaddle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Skedaddle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. skedaddle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. skedaddle: Rhymezone
  19. Skedaddle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. skedaddle: FreeDictionary.org
  21. skedaddle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. skedaddle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Skedaddle: World Wide Words
  24. skedaddle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Skedaddle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. skedaddle: A Word A Day
  2. skedaddle: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. skedaddle, skedaddle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. skedaddle: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. skedaddle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See skedaddled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (informal, intransitive, US) To move or run away quickly.
verb:  (transitive, regional) To spill; to scatter.
noun:  (informal) The act of running away; a scurrying off.

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