Definition of absquatulate in English:
absquatulate
verb əbˈskwɒtʃʊleɪtəbˈskwɒtjʊleɪt
North American humorous no object, with adverbial Leave abruptly.
some overthrown dictator who had absquatulated to the USA
Example sentencesExamples
- One of the drug runners somehow escaped into the brush and Moss discovers him dead in the catclaw with a satchel stuffed with $2.5 million cash with which Moss absquatulates.
- When I find out where Colonel Prosyonni went when he absquatulated, it will be a moot point.
- It is particularly fun in conjunction with absquatulate, as in ‘I shall now absquatulate without further cunctation.’
- He [an old bull-walrus] heard us, and lazily awakening, raised his head and prepared to absquatulate.
- The hotel manager figures the only way out is to absquatulate with some of the mobster's money and the mobster's wife; the mobster thinks the hotel manager and the wife should indeed absquatulate.
- Paul was middle aged and a successful London financier with teenage children when he absquatulated to Paris to become a painter.
- I figured he had absquatulated with my money and to chalk this up to experience.
- America did not gain its preeminent status in the global economy by putting its tail between its legs and wimpishly absquatulating into the cozy embrace of socialism every time a foreign competitor offered lower cost or greater quality.
- This line aroused such fury in the local church matrons that Mark Twain thought it was time ‘to get lost - so I absquatulated.’
- Actually, absquatulate means to leave hurriedly, with the implication that one is being pursued.
Derivatives
noun əbskwɒtjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n
North American humorous Bailey Beadle, senior partner of Beadle and Tatum, a South Florida private investigating firm specializing in cases of provoked absquatulation, was mulling over his morning mail.
Example sentencesExamples
- Fancypants, yes, but I'd have to slice them up and commence absquatulation!
- I have so long been absent from the pages of the Maga. that if I do not make my appearance soon my readers will imagine a total absquatulation.
- When Gwenyth Paltrow perfected a flawless English accent to accompany her brilliant acting in Emma, eyes turned and casting began with absquatulation.
- It went downhill after its deplorable absquatulation to North Kingstown, in 1964.
Origin
Mid 19th century: blend (simulating a Latin form) of abscond, squattle 'squat down', and perambulate.
Definition of absquatulate in US English:
absquatulate
verbabˈskwäCHəˌlātæbˈskwɑtʃəˌleɪt
North American humorous no object, with adverbial Leave abruptly.
some overthrown dictator who had absquatulated to the U.S.A
Example sentencesExamples
- It is particularly fun in conjunction with absquatulate, as in ‘I shall now absquatulate without further cunctation.’
- I figured he had absquatulated with my money and to chalk this up to experience.
- One of the drug runners somehow escaped into the brush and Moss discovers him dead in the catclaw with a satchel stuffed with $2.5 million cash with which Moss absquatulates.
- When I find out where Colonel Prosyonni went when he absquatulated, it will be a moot point.
- Actually, absquatulate means to leave hurriedly, with the implication that one is being pursued.
- The hotel manager figures the only way out is to absquatulate with some of the mobster's money and the mobster's wife; the mobster thinks the hotel manager and the wife should indeed absquatulate.
- Paul was middle aged and a successful London financier with teenage children when he absquatulated to Paris to become a painter.
- America did not gain its preeminent status in the global economy by putting its tail between its legs and wimpishly absquatulating into the cozy embrace of socialism every time a foreign competitor offered lower cost or greater quality.
- He [an old bull-walrus] heard us, and lazily awakening, raised his head and prepared to absquatulate.
- This line aroused such fury in the local church matrons that Mark Twain thought it was time ‘to get lost - so I absquatulated.’
Origin
Mid 19th century: blend (simulating a Latin form) of abscond, squattle ‘squat down’, and perambulate.