Skedaddle

Verb

 * 1) To move or run away quickly.
 * The sheep skedaddled as soon as the shepherd’s dog came near.

Synonyms

 * flee, vamoose, scat, take off, make tracks, get lost

Thesaurus
abscond, absquatulate, back out, beat a retreat, begone, boggle, bolt, career, chicken, chicken out, clear out, cut and run, cut out, dart, dash, decamp, depart, desert, desert under fire, dog it, elope, falter, fight shy, flee, fling, fly, fugitate, funk, funk out, get cold feet, go AWOL, haste, hasten, hie, hightail, hump, hump it, hurry, hurtle, jib, jump, jump a mile, jump bail, kite, lam, levant, lose courage, make haste, make off, panic, post, powder, race, run, run away, run away from, run away with, run for it, run off, rush, scamper, scoot, scour, scram, scramble, screw, scud, scurry, scuttle, shoot, show the heels, shy, skip, skip out, slip the cable, split, stampede, start, start aside, startle, step on it, take French leave, take a powder, take flight, take off, take to flight, take wing, tear, turn tail, vamoose

Etymology
Probably an alteration of British dialect scaddle:, from the adjective scaddle#Adjective:, from scathel:, skadylle:, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse skaði:. Possibly related to the Greek σκέδασις:, σκεδασμός:. 🇺🇸 Possibly related to scud or scat.

Translations

 * Dutch:, wegstuiven, het op een lopen zetten
 * Finnish: juosta karkuun
 * French: déguerpir
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: sortir
 * Polish: zwiewać, zwiać


 * Russian: драпать, улепётывать ,  удирать ,  удрать , сматываться ,  смотаться
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: sticka, pysa, dra