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Definition of scoot:

  • (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily

Sentence Examples:

Some little rabbits scoot, panic-stricken, from the last few yards of still-standing grain.

Jumping up in alarm, Dorothy saw a curious company scooting about upon the surface of the water.

Meeting no hound when he dropped into the tunnel, Old Joe sighed thankfully and scooted onwards.

That beggar belonging to the Rajah scooted down-hill with his eyes hanging out of his head.

He stood by the edge of the stream, watching water spiders scoot across the rippled surface.

We saw at least twenty bears on this journey, besides hearing many scooting through the bush.

He got another one of those queer letters, and, as usual, when he does, he scoots off somewhere.

Boats were scooting all over the harbor, and we had a time to keep from bumping into things.

She lifted her head, and the moment her compelling eyes left him, Jackie scooted for shelter.

"They must have scooted before we could get to them," reported Arbery on his return to the shed.

Then you can scoot out of the village and wait for me a reasonable time somewhere along the road.

I waited, and presently she came out again and scooted off as if she didn't want to meet anybody.

He said nothing more until we were scooting downhill in the car in the midst of a cloud of dust.

"Couldn't find him," he said, "the old cow must have heard me coming, and scooted into some room."

It is all very nice to be aboard here, scooting along under the sea, but we ought to be home.

My enemies had long since scooted, some of them, I had rejoiced to notice, with lame and halting steps.

There's nothing to hurt you, and if you scoot fast, it won't take ten minutes to get that book.

Now let me take one in each palm, and you will scoot up this drive as if you were on wheels.

"We'd better scoot on with the program, or we'll never get through till next week," she declared.

Speaking of trains reminds me that I have been scooting around the country lately on mixed and accommodation trains.

You scoot back and get the coffee pot, Ephraim, and the big long spoon, they'll probably have one.

A cat, wild as any rabbit, shot suddenly across their path and scooted under one of the stalls.

Sorry to send you others into the cold, cold world, but I'm afraid you'll have to scoot and change

He got better directly, and we all scooted home to old nurse's, leaving our coining plant without a pang.

"I tell you what," said Hugh John to himself, "I'll scoot through the woods and give them a surprise."

I didn't pay any attention, and as I opened the door that something scooted past me and slipped upstairs.

They took the scoot with them, and in wild confusion our ten led horses followed madly after them.

When we stopped for water just this side of Laramie I thought I saw a couple scooting along the side.

Judd started off bravely, however, seeming to scoot into the lead like a squirrel, his short legs fairly twinkling.

You scoot right down that way, the way you came, and get clear of the crowd before it starts.

Then, from the far shoulder of the island, they saw a flat gasoline-propelled raft scooting across the river.

Along the ground he scooted in a manner that seemed to proclaim the dry soil greased at that particular point.

It scooted off to the side and was heading for the very spot where Bobby, Steve and Sue stood.

When you get to the attics, scoot along the roofs till you come to the corner of the little square.

He whipped out a gun and leveled it at the enemy, and told me to scoot and get on my horse.

They cracked like pistol shots, and, turning around to look at the rabbit, Bert saw it scooting away over the snow.

Then they'd let themselves be seen, just for the briefest moment, and they'd scoot back inside our dome, fast.

As it was, Addison said we had better make a scoot, load the geese on it, and take the nearest way home.

The three spans on the scoot dashed down the slope, but brought up abruptly on different sides of a tree.

She made a little scooting gesture and Perry understood that she meant he should be following them, getting the video.

Scarcely did the Fire Bird find itself on the top of a hill before it went scooting down to the bottom.

The obliging youth scooted off the porch and after the couple who had disappeared only a few moments before.

Long enough, he hoped, for someone to have scooted ahead and notified the military personnel guarding the area to keep hands off.

A whole school went scooting past, some of them darting out of the water as if they too were thoroughly enjoying themselves.

I say you never heard such a yell, as the balloon went scooting up into the sky, pretty near out of sight.

He ran around and barked with rage as his quarry scooted up a neighbor's lane and disappeared among some piles of rails.

If the Bird was wrecked it could be abandoned and all the crew could scoot off in the little rollers.

They got a big kick out of watching the girl edge over toward me and seeing me slowly scoot away from her.

"You just went down there yourself one day and exploded some long words at the ducks, and, naturally, they scooted."

Then Harry came nearer, but the other fellows stood over near the spring house, so they could scoot inside, I suppose.

And everything being settled as far as he could foresee it then, Harry went scooting off into the night on his machine.

We still tell of the time the paper sack scooted across the icy platform and stood Mayor Andrews on his head.

By this time the tin peddler had scooted up a tall tree quick as a squirrel and there he set on a limb.

The aerial marvel began to scoot across the field toward Roy as obediently as if it had been an automobile under perfect control.

Why, I seed the balls that hit his head glance off and scoot up in the air, like skipping stones over the water.

Just as I came along they were scooting away, but a glance showed me the mischief they had worked, so I followed them.

I don't want to fix a place up just as I like it, and then scoot off and leave it and live somewhere else.

Hardly knowing why he did it, he dragged the wool quilt off Grandma's bed and scooted across the floor in a flash.

"That I can't say, but I heard them murmuring something about a rehearsal, and they all scooted off to the small studio."

I scooted after the first glance, and rolled over and over down the first flight of stairs, and leaped down the second.

I fetched the shore a half a mile above the village, and then went scooting along the bluff bank in the easy water.

Here, Gaston, or Mike, or whatever you call yourself, scoot around the corner quicker than blazes and see if you can see a cab.

One of the boys fired a shot into the ray, which immediately breached, scooting fully twenty feet out and ahead, like a flying fish.

And away they scooted, under the trees and then along a row of bushes running fairly close to the first line of tents.

I scooted back and told the others that our captain was still alive, and a little later we pushed off into the flood.

"We'd best scoot, then," said Annie, and flinging back the letters into the bath, she turned with the rest and clattered downstairs.

As all sail had to be hauled down before the vessels came in sight of the interior, the vessels seemed literally to scoot into the basin.

As it is still under fire, we were scooted through, and were not allowed to get out, or take any pictures, for which I am sorry.

Inside it was dim and shadowy, and two or three barn cats scooted away from their pans of milk at the sight of intruders.

They locked the door from the outside and scooted for the next floor, throwing the things they carried in a corner out of sight.

"We can pile the cockpit full of fur robes, and when the wind is right we can scoot up the lake to beat the band!"

Outside the shop they were joined by others who were in waiting, three of them, and they scooted back toward the west in a hurry.

"The traveling machine seems to be running away with me, and I'm missing no end of sights by scooting along up here in the clouds."

He had a most proprietary manner, but all the same, that little witch is quite capable of scooting off like that, just to tease me.

It was much harder to see the fish, and when they scooted off to the other side of the tank, they were lost to view.

If it were one of the fellows playing the fool, he must have heard me coming, and why didn't he scoot while he had the chance?

Sometimes we get an apple well up the side of a slope and then somebody starts laughing, and it slips away and goes scooting back again.

He might even break formation and scoot off to some point where he knows Japs naval vessels are on patrol, and contact them that way.

It's five now, and everything's about done, so we can scoot home and get some dinner and get dressed, and be back here before they arrive.

He indicated a motor launch which was scooting across the water, her red and green side lights shining through the dusk like bright jewels.

She was coming out for her customary walk at the hour of guard mounting, but the next thing he knew she had "scooted" indoors again.

In the meantime, the man on third had reached home and the man from second had rounded third and was scooting for the plate.

We, however, sent them on their way, and I will lay my life that they will not "scoot" at the sight of the next foreigner.

They will gather in front of the threatened point; I will be on the watch, and, when the way opens, will scoot for Wounded Knee.

"When two people really love each other they can generally manage to set the worst of any shadows scooting off to the dark places they belong."

How they did run, and dodge, and scoot, in between the two lines which showered them with blows and kicks and stones and dirt!

By the time Jim was nearly ready to land, he had seen the ten drop out of the fog, and each one scooted away as quickly as possible.

He gulped the corn down so fast and buried his nose so deep that he lost his breath, and one stubborn kernel scooted down his Sunday throat.

The man was just scrambling to his feet when a big, blue ball of fire shot out of the side of the box and scooted along his back.

In the first place, I'm a bit tired of scooting through the air so much, though it isn't to be denied that it's the quickest way of going.

The Falcon's hands made lightning adjustments on the board, and the ship scooted back toward the ground, fled, barely a hundred feet above the rusty sand.

She kicked and struggled: she wanted to stay for you, but I shoved her in the ship, locked the port, and went scooting up like a rocket.

His relations have brought him here to recruit, and generally they keep a good eye over his movements, but sometimes he dodges them and scoots off by himself.

Reddy, seeing that the coast was clear, for the time being, scooted back to where Henri and Billy were anxiously waiting and called them by name.

The heavy wagon bed protected him from the falling rocks, but one huge rock rolled against a wheel and scooted the wagon sideways a couple of feet.

All day long Sigurd would scoot and spin about the little range of rooms that we liked to have quiet and orderly, a very electric battery of mischief.

The fellow seemed to scoot over the ground, and he was resting with his hand on the plate when the catcher bored the ball between his shoulders.

When they were aboard the Eleanor and scooting through the opening in the bar, Bessie found that the conditions were indeed very different from those of the previous afternoon.

The idea of just seeing a performance on the stage, and then rushing through a very fancy supper, and then scooting for home as if the house was on fire!

He grew quite familiar with the attic part of it, scooting up there whenever we raised a sail, and remaining for days at a time when a ship was in port.