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say it: skat
scat is a noun and verb meaning "singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument". It carries 2 recorded senses.
singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
“If you see this man, run!”
“The burglars escaped before the police showed up”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for scat come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.