scram
About 0.09 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To leave in a hurry; to go away. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
What are you kids doing on my lawn? Scram!
- noun A gun, firearm.
- verb To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
- verb Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
- noun A shutdown of a nuclear reactor (or, by extension, some other thing), often done rapidly due to an emergency.
- noun The device used to shut down a nuclear reactor; also, the button or switch used to initiate a shutdown.
- verb To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.
- verb To mine for ore on a small scale, especially from mines previously been worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed.
Similar words
bugger off get buzz off skedaddle vamoose shoo stopping stop bounce arrest
Often followed by
and the system out before or jet rods is
Word family
scrammed scramming scrams
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