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run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
The thief made off with our silver
the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe
How To Use absquatulate In A Sentence
- I figured he had absquatulated with my money and to chalk this up to experience.
- A far juicier opportunity for recrimination occurred in March, when it was discovered that a company bookkeeper named F. M. Scott had absquatulated with some $25,000. Mark Twain
- The indignation aroused by his enormities has been too crushing to be borne by living man, though sheathed with the brass and triple cheek of Mark Twain…He has vamosed, cut stick, absquatulated; and among the pine forests of the Sierras, or amid the purlieus of the city of earthquakes, he will tarry awhile, and the office of the Enterprise will become purified…33 Mark Twain
- One of the drug runners somehow escaped into the brush and Moss discovers him dead in the catclaw with a satchel stuffed with $2.5 million cash with which Moss absquatulates.
- Actually, absquatulate means to leave hurriedly, with the implication that one is being pursued.
- Turned out the camp tender had absquatulated the premises due to a shortage of whiskey, leaving the camp unattended, a no no in bear country. Time for a good hunting story. We are camped under huge spruce trees on Afognak Island. It's raining hard but we are dry.
- Paul was middle aged and a successful London financier with teenage children when he absquatulated to Paris to become a painter.
- 'They have ripped it full chisel, they are off licketty-split, they have slid, they have made tracks, they have mizzled -- they have absquatulated and clipped it; _abiit, evasit, crupit_! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
- It is particularly fun in conjunction with absquatulate, as in ‘I shall now absquatulate without further cunctation.’
- I got a call around 1am – Spider Monkey, realizing I absquatulated, calling me LAME! El Vez, Xmas Eve, and shit