absquatulate
- v run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
- Others were invented (caucus, lynch-law, squatter), improvised (sockdolager, spondulix, absquatulate), and embellished (kerflop, kerthump, kersouse).
- Webster's 20th Century Unabridged Dictionary does not even give "obsquatulate," does give "absquatulate" meaning to leave suddenly, to decamp.
- He turned round and, exercising his privilege as an "Old Boy," gruffly ordered us to "absquatulate," which means nothing worse than "scram.