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1. Singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
   - scat singing
    
2. Faecal matter of animals
   - droppings, dung, muck

1. Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
   "If you see this man, scat!";
   - run, scarper, turn tail, lam [N. Amer], run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away, leg it [Brit]

Sounds like: skat

Derived forms: scatting, scats, scatted

Type of: BM, dejection, faecal matter [Brit, Cdn], faeces [Brit, Cdn], fecal matter [N. Amer], feces [N. Amer], go away, go forth, jazz, leave, ordure, singing, stool, vocalising [Brit], vocalizing

Encyclopedia: Scat