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• n  singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
• v  flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

• They go down as easily as frozen margaritas, never more beguilingly than when she slips in scat syllables like "dit-doo, die-yah-da-doo" in Four Leaf Clover, or simply "ooh-ooh-ooh .
• Quick as scat the President declared martial law.
• Director George Roy Hill abruptly annihilates the nostalgia with a scat-singing sound track by Burt Bacharach at his most cacophonous.

• scat singing
• run
• scarper
• turn tail
• lam
• run away
• hightail it
• bunk
• head for the hills
• take to the woods
• escape
• fly the coop
• break away

News & Articles

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• Belmont Stakes 2013: An in-depth look at the 14 contenders
  FRAC DADDY PP: 1 ODDS: 30-1 OWNER: Magic City Thoroughbred Partners JOCKEY: Alan Garcia TRAINER: Kenneth McPeek FAMILY TREE: Sire: Scat Daddy (Johannesburg): Dam: Skipper’s Mate (Skip Away) VICTORIES OF NOTE: None WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW: Arkansas Derby runner-up skipped...
  June 7, 2013 - The Star-Ledger

Quotes

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• Todd Pletcher in USA Today
  Scat Daddy overcame a lot to wear down a nice group of horses,Pletcher said. "I never doubted he could go two turns."
• Ben Roethlisberger in USA Today
  We didn't get him to replace Willie,quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said. "We got him to be our scat guy, a guy to catch passes, and that's what he's been doing. And he's been doing a great job of running the ball. When we got him, I was...
• Clinton Portis in SportingNews.com
  I would say that transformation is just to an all-around back,Portis said. "You can't label me a scat-back or a third-down back. Now you see I can grind. You know I can break the big ones, so I would say 'all-around back."