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词汇 absquatulate
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Definition of absquatulate in English:

absquatulate

verb əbˈskwɒtʃʊleɪtəbˈskwɒtjʊleɪt
North American humorous
  • no object, with adverbial Leave abruptly.

    〈幽默,主北美〉突然离开

    some overthrown dictator who had absquatulated to the USA

    某个逃到美国的被推翻的独裁者。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One of the drug runners somehow escaped into the brush and Moss discovers him dead in the catclaw with a satchel stuffed with $2.5 million cash with which Moss absquatulates.
    • When I find out where Colonel Prosyonni went when he absquatulated, it will be a moot point.
    • It is particularly fun in conjunction with absquatulate, as in ‘I shall now absquatulate without further cunctation.’
    • He [an old bull-walrus] heard us, and lazily awakening, raised his head and prepared to absquatulate.
    • The hotel manager figures the only way out is to absquatulate with some of the mobster's money and the mobster's wife; the mobster thinks the hotel manager and the wife should indeed absquatulate.
    • Paul was middle aged and a successful London financier with teenage children when he absquatulated to Paris to become a painter.
    • I figured he had absquatulated with my money and to chalk this up to experience.
    • America did not gain its preeminent status in the global economy by putting its tail between its legs and wimpishly absquatulating into the cozy embrace of socialism every time a foreign competitor offered lower cost or greater quality.
    • This line aroused such fury in the local church matrons that Mark Twain thought it was time ‘to get lost - so I absquatulated.’
    • Actually, absquatulate means to leave hurriedly, with the implication that one is being pursued.

Derivatives

  • absquatulation

  • noun əbskwɒtjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n
    North American humorous
    • Bailey Beadle, senior partner of Beadle and Tatum, a South Florida private investigating firm specializing in cases of provoked absquatulation, was mulling over his morning mail.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Fancypants, yes, but I'd have to slice them up and commence absquatulation!
      • I have so long been absent from the pages of the Maga. that if I do not make my appearance soon my readers will imagine a total absquatulation.
      • When Gwenyth Paltrow perfected a flawless English accent to accompany her brilliant acting in Emma, eyes turned and casting began with absquatulation.
      • It went downhill after its deplorable absquatulation to North Kingstown, in 1964.

Origin

Mid 19th century: blend (simulating a Latin form) of abscond, squattle 'squat down', and perambulate.

Definition of absquatulate in US English:

absquatulate

verbabˈskwäCHəˌlātæbˈskwɑtʃəˌleɪt
North American humorous
  • no object, with adverbial Leave abruptly.

    〈幽默,主北美〉突然离开

    some overthrown dictator who had absquatulated to the U.S.A

    某个逃到美国的被推翻的独裁者。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is particularly fun in conjunction with absquatulate, as in ‘I shall now absquatulate without further cunctation.’
    • I figured he had absquatulated with my money and to chalk this up to experience.
    • One of the drug runners somehow escaped into the brush and Moss discovers him dead in the catclaw with a satchel stuffed with $2.5 million cash with which Moss absquatulates.
    • When I find out where Colonel Prosyonni went when he absquatulated, it will be a moot point.
    • Actually, absquatulate means to leave hurriedly, with the implication that one is being pursued.
    • The hotel manager figures the only way out is to absquatulate with some of the mobster's money and the mobster's wife; the mobster thinks the hotel manager and the wife should indeed absquatulate.
    • Paul was middle aged and a successful London financier with teenage children when he absquatulated to Paris to become a painter.
    • America did not gain its preeminent status in the global economy by putting its tail between its legs and wimpishly absquatulating into the cozy embrace of socialism every time a foreign competitor offered lower cost or greater quality.
    • He [an old bull-walrus] heard us, and lazily awakening, raised his head and prepared to absquatulate.
    • This line aroused such fury in the local church matrons that Mark Twain thought it was time ‘to get lost - so I absquatulated.’

Origin

Mid 19th century: blend (simulating a Latin form) of abscond, squattle ‘squat down’, and perambulate.

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