Scat
WordNet
noun
(1) Singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
verb
(2) Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
"If you see this man, run!"
"The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Animal excrement; dung.
- Scat singing.
- Heroin.
- Whiskey.
- Coprophilia.
- 1988, “Pete”, quoted in Seymour Kleinberg, Alienated Affections: Being Gay in America, Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-312-02158-0, page 183:
- Enema queens, like scat queens, are really the scum of the earth.
- 1998, Dennis Cooper, Guide, Grove Press, ISBN 978-0-8021-3580-3, page 170:
- “ I hear he’s into S&M and scat and all kinds of kinky shit. ”
- 2004, Phineas Mollod and Jason Tesauro, The Modern Lover: A Playbook for Suitors, Spouses & Ringless Carousers, Ten Speed Press, ISBN 978-1-58008-601-1, page 72:
- In short, when venturing into the realm of extreme fetish, ensure you have an extreme understanding of a partner’s boundaries before laying down a plastic tarp for scat play.
- 1988, “Pete”, quoted in Seymour Kleinberg, Alienated Affections: Being Gay in America, Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-312-02158-0, page 183:
Synonyms
- do do excrement
- dooky excrement
- droppings (animal excrement)
- crap excrement
- poop excrement
- shit excrement
- spoor animal excrement
Verb
- To leave quickly (often used in the imperative).
- Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.
- An imperative demand, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.
- Scat! Go on! Get out of here!
- To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoetically or imitative of musical instruments.