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Run like a chipmunk
Answer for the clue "Run like a chipmunk ", 7 letters:
scamper
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to run quickly," 1680s, probably from Flemish schampeeren , frequentative of schampen "run away," from Old North French escamper (Old French eschamper ) "to run away, flee, quit the battlefield, escape," from Vulgar Latin *excampare "decamp," literally ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB off ▪ At once the clown scampered off into the dark. ▪ Jennifer scampered off to set up the game. ▪ Why not just demand their valuables and scamper off ? ▪ The boy scampered off , well pleased, all his earlier anxiety ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. rushing about hastily in an undignified way [syn: scramble , scurry ] v. to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground" [syn: scurry , skitter , scuttle ]
Usage examples of scamper.
The bruised foot forgotten, Milly did an amazingly spritely scamper all the way back to their cart.
Savi out of sweet clay for His son to bite and eat, add honeycomb and pods, chewing her neck until froth rises bladdery, quick, quick, till maggots scamper through my brain.
The Dutch gunners had left the Islanders to settle their own quarrels, and were scampering back to Bridgewater, leaving their silent pieces to the Royal Horse.
As Leia left the dormitory with Jaina and Jacen, several of the little ones climbed out of bed and scampered to the Wookiee, to cuddle against his brindled fur.
When a boulder flattened a stock pen or fold or sty and freed its contents, the horses and sheep and pigs scampered hither and yon, bleating, squealing, neighing, butting, kicking.
And the centuries-old division between India and Pakistan like a severed limb the refugees breaking down all attempts at organization finally the water-table under the city hopelessly poisoned by sewage mass eruptions of disease scampering mesolithic men crouching in their cave exchanging illnesses viruses use mankind as walking cities.
She caught up one of the soft furry mouselets and let the others scamper away.
Klyucharyov, hero of several previous works, is found struggling for survival in a city divided between an underground realm of safety and plenty and an overground wilderness in which human society has virtually ceased to function: the lights have gone out, stray, frightened figures scamper between dark buildings, rape and robbery take place unremarked, and the dead are left unburied.
Macedonian phalanxes a flurry of peltasts scampered, showering the advancing Athenians with arrows and javelins and rocks.
They scampered like lunatics beneath the hidden moon, every bit of ice between them and Penultima Thule an affront to their sanity.
Clutching the fist-sized piece of quartzite in his hand, he scampered down the bank and headed for the muddy river.
She quirked in wonder as the animal frantically scampered up a nearby tree.
But Searcher stayed with Dawn, scampering along as well as an augmented racoon could.
He felt a stab inside his ears as always, and the scampering sounds quickly departed.
Harold tried not to step on any of the scampering rats underfoot as he crossed the pit into the tunnel.