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goes on the scout

goes on the scout is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go on the scout.

Meaning of go on the scout

Verb

go on the scout (third-person singular simple present goes on the scout, present participle going on the scout, simple past went on the scout, past participle been on the scout)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, scout.; to go on a scouting mission.
    • Foster wanted Hateher to go on another scout and he told the Lieutenant that if he would pay back his money that he had paid out for the State, so he could get some blankets—as the weather was getting bad—that he would go on the scout.1908, John M. Elkins, Life on the Texas Frontier, page 98
  2. (idiomatic) To go into hiding.
    • Killed a man and hauled him off a mile and a half and threw him over at that place, and went on the scout, and never told anybody about it ?1893, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court

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Goes on the scout is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go on the scout.

Words near goes on the scout in the dictionary

  1. goes on one's merry way
  2. goes on record
  3. goes on strike
  4. goes on the account
  5. goes on the mitch
  6. goes on the scout
  7. goes on vacation
  8. goes one better
  9. goes one's own way
  10. goes one's ways
  11. goes or blows

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