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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scat
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ bear scat
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As Heather descended the hill Rufus awoke, barking and slavering ill the back scat.
▪ Bear scat was evident on the two-mile-long fire road leading into Mill Creek on this day.
▪ I pull and pull and all I gain is maybe a quarter-inch off the leather scat.
▪ I skip my usual bag of popcorn and I go and find my favorite scat.
▪ I thought I should faint and leaned against the scat.
▪ Maude took a scat at the end of the table and laid her hands flat on the dark mahogany.
▪ Susan was already off the window scat, looking for a place to tuck her sketch pad.
▪ When Matty returned to his scat on the mortgage desk, he appeared to have witnessed the end of the world.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scat

Scat \Scat\, n. A shower of rain. [Prov. Eng.]
--Wright.

Scat

Scat \Scat\, Scatt \Scatt\, n. [Icel. skattr.] Tribute. [R.] ``Seizing scatt and treasure.''
--Longfellow.

Scat

Scat \Scat\ (sk[a^]t), interj. Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
scat

"go away!" 1838, from expression quicker than s'cat "in a great hurry," probably representing a hiss followed by the word cat.

scat

"nonsense patter sung to jazz," 1926, probably of imitative origin, from one of the syllables used. As a verb, 1935, from the noun. Related: Scatting.

scat

"filth, dung," 1950, from Greek stem skat- "dung" (see scatology).

Wiktionary
scat

Etymology 1 alt. 1 A tax; tribute. 2 (context UK dialectal English) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands. n. 1 A tax; tribute. 2 (context UK dialectal English) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands. Etymology 2

alt. 1 (context biology English) Animal excrement; dung. 2 (context slang English) heroin. 3 (context slang obsolete English) whiskey. 4 (context slang English) coprophili

  1. 5 (context UK dialect English) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind. n. 1 (context biology English) Animal excrement; dung. 2 (context slang English) heroin. 3 (context slang obsolete English) whiskey. 4 (context slang English) coprophilia. 5 (context UK dialect English) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind. Etymology 3

    n. (context music jazz English) scat singing. v

  2. (context music jazz English) To sing an improvised melody solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments. Etymology 4

    vb. 1 (context colloquial English) To leave quickly (often used in the imperative). 2 (context colloquial English) An imperative demand, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.

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WordNet
scat

  1. n. singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument [syn: scat singing]

  2. [also: scatting, scatted]

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Wikipedia
Scat

Scat or SCAT may refer to:

SCAT (automobile)

The SCAT (Società Ceirano Automobili Torino) was an Italian automobile manufacturer from Turin, founded in 1906 by Giovanni Battista Ceirano.

The company was active from 1906 to 1932 and achieved Targa Florio wins in 1911, 1912 and 1914. The first produced models were the 12 HP, the 16 HP and the 22 HP of 1909.

Scat (novel)

Scat is a teenage novel by Carl Hiaasen, published in 2009. Scat, Hiaassen's third young adult novel, tells the mystery of a missing teacher named Mrs. Bunny Starch, and how two of her students, Nick Waters and Marta Gonzalez, will do everything they can to find her. The book is available in over 1,000 libraries and was well-received when it came out, with a positive review in the New York Times.

Carl Hiaasen is the author of other notable children's fiction novels, including Flush, in over 2,500 libraries. and Hoot, in over 3,200 libraries. He received the Newbery Honor for Hoot in 2003. Like Hoot and Flush, Scat takes place in Florida.

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Usage examples of "scat".

Somehow she manages to wiggle through the crowd of Harvards around the posts, and the next thing anybody knows she shins up one of the posts faster than you can say scat, and pretty soon is roosting out on the crossbar between the posts like a chipmunk.

Winter weekends, whole summers out in the woods, in empty lots, in our immense, dark backyard, examining the scat of rabbits, catching bizarre electrical arthropoda in jars, convinced, sensing firsthand the terrible expanse of the place.

When he found the bigtooth scat, he motioned the others over to investigate.

She could dive behind the bed, but if Dinh shot at her the bullet would probably hit Scat.

This he burst open, and was entering without any ceremony, when Jones started from his scat and ran to oppose him, which he did so effectually, that Nightingale never came far enough within the door to see who was sitting on the bed.

The scent, fur, cry, scat, and teeth markings on half-consumed fruit, the prints through duff of an anteater, are all mentally noted.

The yellow balls from the chinaberry tree lay scat tered all over the ground, and Ellen crunched them underfoot.

Still chuckling over her success, the girl slid into the driver's scat.

She scatted along, enjoying the feel and the sound of the music as it bounced through the echo box.

The lab report came back that it was indeed the scat of Felis concolor, the eastern mountain lion, also variously and respectfully known as the panther, cougar, puma, and, especially in New England, catamount.

She stopped to point out bobcat scat, deer tracks and a red-shouldered hawk in the treetops.

Piled next to the coyote's mark was the unmistakable reddish berry-filled scat of the ring-tailed cat.

Miles took the added precaution of attaching the shelter to the scat cat with a short chain.

The crater's sides began to slump inward at once, but the hovercab operator narrowed and reversed his beam, and the scat cat rose, noisily sucking free from its matrix.

The deputy picked a hole in the traffic and scatted across, and barreled it on up to ninety.