scat
skat
- 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.