SKEDADDLING Synonyms

• (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line

• the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner

• moving with great haste

• a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder

• a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech

• the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key

• the act of moving with great haste

• a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length

• a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener

• a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)

• in a rigid manner

• directly

• move or jump suddenly

• secure or lock with a bolt

• swallow hastily

• run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

• leave suddenly and as if in a hurry

• eat hastily without proper chewing

• make or roll into bolts

• a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot

• a tapered tuck made in dressmaking

• a sudden quick movement

• move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart

• run or move very quickly or hastily

• move with sudden speed

• the act of escaping physically

• an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy

• nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

• an avoidance of danger or difficulty

• a means or way of escaping

• a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild

• the discharge of a fluid from some container

• a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level

• run away from confinement

• fail to experience

• escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action

• be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by

• remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion

• flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

• issue or leak, as from a small opening

• run away quickly

• act at high speed

• move hurridly

• speed up the progress of; facilitate

• cause to occur rapidly

• retreat at full speed

• a quick run

• run very fast, usually for a short distance

• the act of leaving (without permission) the place you are expected to be

• run away quickly

• retreat at full speed

• leave suddenly

• depart for someplace

• take away

• depart from the ground

• take time off from work; stop working temporarily

• mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner

• remove clothes or shoes

• get started or set in motion, used figuratively

• prove fatal

• make a subtraction