Absquatulate


to flee; abscond:
The old prospector absquatulated with our picks and shovel.
Historical Examples

To “vamose the ranch” means to clear out, to depart, to cut stick, to absquatulate.
Across America James F. Rusling

Then when some one laughed she added, “You say ‘absquatulate’ over here, don’t you?”
In the High Valley Susan Coolidge

Prudence warned them to absquatulate, and they determined to cut their lucky, before the inevitable dénouement.
Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion G. Hamilton-Browne

In the 40’s to absquatulate was in good usage, but it has since disappeared.
The American Language Henry L. Mencken

absquatulate was a big word, but she understood it, having come across it one day in the Dictionary.
The Poor Little Rich Girl Eleanor Gates

The hybrid but expressive Americanism absquatulate, means to clear off; the reverse of to squat.
The Sailor’s Word-Book William Henry Smyth

verb
(intransitive) to leave; decamp
v.

1837, “Facetious U.S. coinage” [Weekley], perhaps rooted in mock-Latin negation of squat “to settle.” Said to have been used by the U.S. Western character “Nimrod Wildfire” in the play “The Kentuckian,” as re-written by British author William B. Bernard and staged in London in 1833. Related: Absquatulated; absquatulating.

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