Definition of "skedaddled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of skedaddle. (verb)

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• "Meanwhile, the witnesses of the rural wedding had all skedaddled -- to borrow a Greek word -- into the woods, in dire confusion, tearing dresses, pulling down 'back hair,' hitching hoop skirts, and tumbling over blackberry vines -- but each intent on increasing the distance from the mad cow."
• "Mr. Penrose "skedaddled" after the bell-boy with unmistakable alacrity."
• "They "skedaddled" one night -- that was the time this ugly word originated -- and took refuge in the woods with their guns; and not long after, it is supposed, they built this log fortalice in the depths of the wilderness."