take a powder

1. 1.

   disappear without notifying anyone (idiom)

   Synonymsskip town

   Broaderdisappear

Questions about take a powder

What does take a powder mean?

take a powder means "disappear without notifying anyone (idiom)".

What is another word for take a powder?

Close synonyms include skip town. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take a powder a common word?

take a powder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.