verb
- to run away quickly; to leave hastily
Usage: informal
Examples
- The children skedaddled when they saw the angry farmer approaching.
- We’d better skedaddle before the rain starts.
- The cat skedaddled up the tree when the dog barked.
- Time to skedaddle – the movie starts in ten minutes!
- The thieves skedaddled as soon as they heard the sirens.
- Let’s skedaddle out of here before anyone notices we’re gone.