Definition of "scat" [scat]

• Informal To go away hastily; leave at once. (verb-intransitive)
• Jazz singing in which improvised, meaningless syllables are sung to a melody. (noun)
• To sing scat. (verb-intransitive)
• Excrement, especially of an animal; dung. (noun)

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• "I've never heard anyone say, in New Orleans, even the word 'scat'."
• "Dinkins would have no second term, as Giuliani sniped, bitched, needled, and flung scat from the sidelines during Dinkins 'entire term — with help from his new breed patrons on the media side, and swept into power on a pounding fist and a constant, yapping bark."
• "I check out the brochure, but there is no course in scat singing."