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Meanings of scat in anglès

portuguès
meter o rabo entre as pernas
català
escapolir-se

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.

escapolir-se
portuguès
scat
català
scat

Singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument.

scat
Usage of scat in anglès
1
Most tourists want to see the animals, not the just the scat.
The Guardian
2
Tells how Mozart, Liszt, and Brahms used scat, and its modern development.
The new yorker
3
The tail end of a scat of rain beat on their faces.
Nobody's Man
4
Nodelman kept me waiting, without offering me a scat, a good half-hour.
The Rise of David Levinsky
5
I swear, the stuff tasted like armadillo scat mixed with swamp water.
Sister Mine
6
To add to the smells coming from the piss-and-scat place, Horace assumed.
Under the dome: a novel
7
A scat of a thing as I can manage with my thumb!
Erema; Or, My Father's Sin
8
I never was so thunderin' scat in all my life, by gum!
Frank Merriwell's Chums
9
I thank you for doing your duty, but now you need to scat.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
10
Her disparate reference points range from scat singing to folk and meditative music.
The Irish Times
11
Earl Thorfin sent Thorkel Fosterer to the islands to gather in his scat.
Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
12
Biologists mostly rely on tracks and scat to document the reclusive animal's presence.
Reuters
13
Many of the artists are also scat singers and jazz poets.
Radio NZ
14
Someplace with a parking lot so she could hang up and then scat.
Full dark, no stars
15
He saw burrows, he saw tracks and scat, but no rats.
The strain
16
Many critics felt he was at his best when allowed to improvise and scat.
The Irish Times
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