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skrrt

[skɹ̩ʔ˥]

skrrt interjection: the sound of a tire screeching.

Interjection

(slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE)

  1. The sound of a tire screeching
  2. The sound of one quickly turning away from someone/something

Verb

skrrt (third-person singular simple present skrrts, present participle skrrting, simple past and past participle skrrted)

  1. To speed away to another place by means of a vehicle with tires, or in simulation of it.
    • Gotta do the dash when I skrrt out the block
      Double-do a rack when your girl git the top2019 January 16, “Out the Spot” (track 4, 0:30 and 1:42 from the start), in Kells Thraxx (lyrics), Prototypical – EP

Forms of skrrt

Interjection
alternative formskrr
alternative formskurt
alternative formscurt
Verb
third-person singular presentskrrts
present participleskrrting
past participleskrrted
pastskrrted

Origin of skrrt

Onomatopoeic. Lexicalized from Riverdale Shawty’s feature in the original mixtape version of Waka Flocka Flame’s 2009 song O Let's Do It uttering Even got the spots (Scurt! Scurt!) off the block. Then in late 2013 Chief Keef picked up the interjection, alleged to have circulated sporadically in Afro-American circles since the 1990s, for his piece Chiefin Keef, his line Pull off in that foreign, skrr skrr skrr, she thought she seen a beast, and many other lines in his further career, to be imitated by other rappers of New York and soon the whole world, which embraced it as a fashion symbol printed on apparel.

Questions about skrrt

What does skrrt mean?
Skrrt means the sound of a tire screeching.
What part of speech is skrrt?
Skrrt can be an interjection or a verb.
How do you pronounce skrrt?
Skrrt is pronounced [skɹ̩ʔ˥].

Words near skrrt in the dictionary

  1. skronk
  2. skronked
  3. skronking
  4. skronks
  5. skronky
  6. skrrt
  7. skrrted
  8. skrrting
  9. skrt
  10. skruff
  11. skruffs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skrrt (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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