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skidaddle

skidaddle is the alternative 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 skidaddle

third-person singular presentskidaddles
present participleskidaddling
past participleskidaddled
pastskidaddled

Questions about skidaddle

What is skidaddle the alternative form of?
Skidaddle is the alternative form of skedaddle.

Words near skidaddle in the dictionary

  1. skid row
  2. skid rows
  3. skid trail
  4. skid-mark
  5. skid-marks
  6. skidaddle
  7. skidaddled
  8. skidaddles
  9. skidaddling
  10. skidance
  11. Skidby

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skidaddle (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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