scat

[skAt]

1. n. nonsense syllables sung to music. (Refers to a [primarily black] jazz practice in the jazz era.)

□ She used to do scat but moved on to blues.

□ He could sing scat like nobody’s business.

2. exclam. Go away! (Usually Scat! Often said to a cat to get it to go away.)

□ Get out! Scat! Beat it, cat!

□ Scat, you wretched animal!

3.

in. to leave.

□ It’s midnight. I gotta scat.

□ You guys scat now. I have to go to work.

4.

n. heroin. (Drugs. From an old term for dung. See also shit.)

□ Bart is trying to sell scat in the neighborhood again.

□ That scat’s gonna get that man killed.

5. n. inferior whiskey.

□ That rotten scat nearly choked me.

□ You got anything better than that scat, bartender?