Crossword clues for scram
scram
- "Get out of here!"
- Make a run for it
- Get lost!
- ''Get lost!''
- 'Beat it!'
- Order to go
- Make oneself scarce
- "Outta here!"
- Get out!
- "Leave me alone!"
- "Hit the bricks!"
- Clear off!
- "Make yourself scarce!"
- Word of dismissal
- Curt dismissal
- "Bug off!"
- Impolite dismissal
- Evacuation order
- "Out with you!"
- "Leave me alone"
- ''Hit the road!''
- On your way!
- Leave immediately
- Impolite ''goodbye''
- High-tail it
- Get the heck outta there
- "Now git!"
- "Get away from here!"
- ''Buzz off!''
- Utterance of dismissal
- Rude word of dismissal
- Make yourself scarce
- Hardly a welcoming word
- Ejection interjection
- Be off!
- "You're bothering me, kid"
- "Take a powder"
- "Step off!"
- "I said 'go!'"
- "Get the eff outta here"
- "Get outta my sight!"
- "Get outta here, kid! You're bothering me"
- "Get outa here!"
- "Get lost!'
- "Cheese it!"
- "Beat it"
- ''Make like a tree and leave!''
- ''Hit the road, Jack!''
- ''Get out!''
- ''Get out of here!''
- ''Beat it!''
- "Git!"
- Impolite goodbye
- "Hit the road!"
- "Get lost!"
- Hightail it outta there
- "Get outta here!"
- Pest-removal word?
- Beat it!
- Take a powder
- Buzz off!
- Blow the joint
- "Beat it!"
- "Get out!"
- "Get a move on!"
- "Begone!"
- "Vamoose!"
- Word to a pest
- Split
- "Hightail it out of here!"
- Get lost
- Vamoose
- Bolt
- "Take a hike!"
- "Skedaddle!"
- "Butt out!"
- "Make like a tree and leave!"
- "Go away!"
- "Out!"
- "Skiddoo!"
- Get outa here!
- Hotfoot it away
- Absquatulate
- Emphatic request to leave
- Scat!
- "Make tracks!"
- Go away, son, and do some intensive work for exam
- Go away with stuff after start of sales
- Go away from academic room in the morning
- Get out of here!
- Queen involved in dishonest behaviour? Get outta here!
- Entertainer's huge ass finally gone
- Ordered to take off immediately with bombs and set course?
- Rival of S. Ovett? Get away!
- Involved with swindle, right to get out hurriedly
- Hop it!
- Hastily leave university common room before noon
- Take off
- "Buzz off!"
- Head for the hills
- Go away hastily
- 'Get lost!'
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scram \Scram\ (skr[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrammed; p. pr. & vb. n. Scramming.] to shut down (a nuclear reactor) quickly, as in an emergency.
Scram \Scram\ (skr[a^]m), n. the rapid shut down of a nuclear reactor, as in an emergency.
Scram \Scram\ (skr[a^]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scrammed; p. pr. & vb. n. Scramming.] to leave; to go away; used mostly as an impolite command to a person to go away from a specific location. [informal]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1928, U.S. slang, either a shortened form of scramble (v.) or from German schramm, imperative singular of schrammen "depart." Related: Scrammed; scramming.\n
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. Get out of here; go away (frequently imperative). Etymology 2
n. 1 A rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor 2 (alternative spelling of SCRAM English) vb. (context ambitransitive English) To abruptly insert the control rods of a nuclear reactor, usually in case of emergency shutdown. Etymology 3
n. (context Wales English) A scratch#Noun, especially caused by claws or fingernails. vb. (context Wales English) scratch#Verb with claws or fingernails.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A scram or SCRAM is an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor, though the term has been extended to cover shutdowns of other complex operations, such as server farms. In commercial reactor operations, this type of shutdown is often referred to as a "SCRAM" at boiling water reactors (BWR), and as a "reactor trip" at pressurized water reactors (PWR). In many cases, a SCRAM is part of the routine shutdown procedure as well.
The term is usually cited as being an acronym for safety control rod axe man, which was supposedly coined by Enrico Fermi when the world's first nuclear reactor was built under the spectator seating at the University of Chicago's Stagg Field, but NRC Historian Tom Wellock calls the axe-man story "a bunch of baloney". It could also stand for " Safety Control Rods Activation Mechanism" or " Control Rods Actuator Mechanism", both of which are probably backronyms. "Scram" is American English slang for leaving quickly and urgently, which has been cited as the original basis for the use of scram in the technical context.
Scram or SCRAM may refer to:
- Scram (or SCRAM), an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor or a complex operation
- SCRAM tether, an ankle bracelet for Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring
- Static column RAM (or SCRAM), a type of computer memory
- Scram cannon, a hypothetical kinetic energy weapon based on ram accelerator technology
- Scram (video game), an Atari 8-bit family game based around shutdown of a nuclear reactor
- Scramjet, where the flow of and combustion of the fuel/air mixture through the engine happen at supersonic speeds
- Scram Cricket, a variation of the darts game Cricket
- Scram is a word for pork rinds in Northern England
- Scram!, a Laurel and Hardy short film
- Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism, a computer security mechanism used with the Simple Authentication and Security Layer
Scram is an Atari 8-bit family game written by Chris Crawford and published by Atari in 1981. It involves involving a scram, or emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor. Written in Atari BASIC, Scram uses differential equations to simulate reactor behavior. The player controls the valves and switches of a nuclear reactor directly with the joystick.
An unrelated game with the same name was written for the DEC Alpha.
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.