Skedaddle

//skɪˈdædəl//

Synonyms for "skedaddle" (137 found)

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Closest matches (28)

flee abscond absquatulate awol back out beat a retreat begone boggle bolt bugger career chicken chicken out clear out cut and run cut out dart dash decamp depart

Show 6 more words

desert desert under fire desertion disappearance dog it elope

Verb(2 words)

beat feet blitz

Strong matches (41)

elopement escape exit falter fight shy flash flight fling fly french leave fugitate funk funk out get cold feet get out go awol haste hasten hegira hie

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hightail hump hump it hurry hurtle jib jump jump a mile jump bail kite lam

Verb(7 words)

flee get get lost haul one's ashes hightail hightail it kick rocks

Intj(3 words)

get in the sea get stuffed go away

Related words (68)

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7 relation types

More general

15 entries

break away bunk escape flight fly the coop head for the hills hightail it lam run run away scarper scat take to the woods turn tail

Synonyms

1 entries

flee

etymologically related_to

2 entries

scaddle scathel

has context

1 entries

is a

1 entries

escape

manner of

1 entries

run

related to

1 entries

run away

Translations

46 translations across 15 languages.

Bulgarian

2 entries

измъквам се verb (move or run away quickly)
офейквам verb (move or run away quickly)

Dutch

3 entries

het op een lopen zetten verb (move or run away quickly)
vluchten verb (move or run away quickly)
wegstuiven verb (move or run away quickly)

Finnish

1 entries

juosta karkuun verb (move or run away quickly)

French

1 entries

déguerpir verb (move or run away quickly)

German

4 entries

Abhauen noun (Act of running away)
Flucht noun (Act of running away)
Weglaufen noun (Act of running away)
abhauen verb (move or run away quickly)

Hungarian

4 entries

elinal verb (move or run away quickly)
elszalad verb (move or run away quickly)
megfutamodik verb (move or run away quickly)
meglép verb (move or run away quickly)

Interlingua

1 entries

sortir verb (move or run away quickly)

Italian

1 entries

scappare verb (move or run away quickly)

Macedonian

1 entries

бе́га verb (move or run away quickly)

Norwegian Bokmål

3 entries

pigge av verb (move or run away quickly)
stikke verb (move or run away quickly)
stikke av verb (move or run away quickly)

Polish

2 entries

zwiać verb (move or run away quickly)
zwiewać verb (move or run away quickly)

Portuguese

1 entries

dar no pé verb (move or run away quickly)

Russian

4 entries

дра́пать verb (move or run away quickly)
сма́тываться verb (move or run away quickly)
смота́ться verb (move or run away quickly)
удира́ть verb (move or run away quickly)

Spanish

4 entries

alzar el vuelo verb (move or run away quickly)
barajustar verb (move or run away quickly)
barajustarse verb (move or run away quickly)
darse el bote verb (move or run away quickly)

Swedish

4 entries

dra verb (move or run away quickly)
kila verb (move or run away quickly)
pysa verb (move or run away quickly)
rusa verb (move or run away quickly)

Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

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I've got to skedaddle or I'll be late.

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I have to skedaddle.

Source: tatoeba (3722537)

Let's skedaddle!

Source: tatoeba (11294389)

Let's skedaddle.

Source: tatoeba (11907034)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.