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skadoodle

skadoodle is the uncommon form of skedaddle.

Meaning of skedaddle

Verb

skedaddle (third-person singular simple present skedaddles, present participle skedaddling, simple past and past participle skedaddled)

  1. (US, informal, intransitive) To move or run away quickly.
    • "Well," continued the youth, "lots of good-a-'nough men have thought they was going to do great things before the fight, but when the time come they skedaddled."1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter II, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 29
    Synonyms:
    beat feet
  2. (regional, transitive) To spill; to scatter.

See all 3 meanings of skedaddle

Forms of skadoodle

third-person singular presentskadoodles
present participleskadoodling
past participleskadoodled
pastskadoodled

Questions about skadoodle

What is skadoodle the uncommon form of?
Skadoodle is the uncommon form of skedaddle.

Words near skadoodle in the dictionary

  1. skacid
  2. skacore
  3. skadaddle
  4. skaddon
  5. skaddons
  6. skadoodle
  7. Skadovsk
  8. skaergaardite
  9. Skaff
  10. skaffie
  11. skaffies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skadoodle (page history and authors); skedaddle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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