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abscotchalaters

abscotchalaters is the plural of abscotchalater.

Meaning of abscotchalater

Noun

abscotchalater (plural abscotchalaters)

  1. (archaic, thieves' cant) Someone hiding from the police.
    • On 11 June 1962, three absquatulating abscotchalaters – Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin – became perhaps the only inmates of Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco, California, ever to successfully escape the facility.2019 October 14, Paul Anthony Jones, The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 163
    Synonyms:
    fugitive

Questions about abscotchalaters

What is abscotchalaters the plural of?
Abscotchalaters is the plural of abscotchalater.

Words near abscotchalaters in the dictionary

  1. absconsio
  2. absconsion
  3. absconsions
  4. abscopal
  5. abscotchalater
  6. abscotchalaters
  7. ABSD
  8. ABSDs
  9. Absecon
  10. Absecon Island
  11. abseil

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