Take a powder

Usage examples of scram.

Murphy walked aft to look into the maneuvering room to see how the Engineering Officer of the Watch was handling the frantic actions required during a reactor scram.

Jesus, Murphy thought, not just a reactor scram but a fucking steam leak--a ruptured main steam line had enough energy to roast everyone in the aft compartment.

And relay the word to maneuvering: group scram the reactor, secure all reactor main coolant pumps, engage emergency cooling, shut main steam valves one and two and secure steam to the engine room.

This word imshi, meaning to be gone, or scram, was of a language spoken pretty generally in the Near East.

SCRAM Breaker--A circuit breaker that interrupts power to the latching electromagnets of the control rod drive mechanisms.

The troops scram- ble away from the sub-hallway entrance, as something un- speakably evil and terrifying approaches the cabin.

After Aurella had taken control of the city, however, Bebbens had been reassigned as the Chief Diplomat for Murderous Interlopers, which basically involved telling prisoners that they could either scram or face a nice, hearty execution.

Chesapeake, Debby Dee led the Popes to one of the borrowed houses, told all the late drinkers to scram, and put the new test pilot and his beautiful Washington wife to bed.

It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scram bling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires.

If there was a fire you hit the scram button, which shut off the computer, summoned the fire department and dumped halon gas on the machine to extinguish the flames.

He plunged lankily towards the public telephone box and disappeared inside with his eyes switched anxiously my way, watching all through his call to make sure I didn't go back on my decision and scram.

I've called for some obscurement and I'll adjust fire to follow you up the hill, but you'd better scram.

While Joe was wondering what to do about it the kid came to life and knocked him off the car and scrammed again.

Dodge might have fought back, knocked Burke down, then scrammed out the window before Burke could come at him again.

Worse, sometime the next day we were sure to be missed by the folks down at the town, and while they might figure we scrammed, they would also be thinking of the plant and grounds here.