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Amscray
Answer for the clue "Amscray ", 7 letters:
vamoose
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town" [syn: decamp , skip ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to decamp, be off," 1834, from Spanish vamos "let us go," from Latin vadamus , first person plural indicative of vadere "to go, to walk, go hastily," from PIE root *wadh- (2) "to go" (cognates: Old English wadan "to go," Latin vadum "ford;" see wade (v.)). ...
Usage examples of vamoose.
Therefore, when the suid, lifting its tail, attempted to vamoose, I planted my feet, took aim, and fired.
All we know of that man is that he had the booming name of Purboona, and Purboona lost his chance to become immortal because he vamoosed after his first pay day.
The wireless operator at Tillamook Rock, off the Oregon Coast, heard the last signal and alerted the Klipsan Beach lifesaving station, here on the peninsula, to hitch a team to a surf boat and start patrolin' the beach, that the Vamoose was headin' for shore, a derelict with nobody mannin' the helm an' not a scrap o' canvas on her spars.