quicker than scat

adverb

very quickly, in a great hurry.

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Meanings

adverbquicker than scat (not comparable)
  1. USnot comparablesimilevery quickly, in a great hurry.

    Pop! went his gun, and the fire ran down the hill quicker than scat!

    1865, Charles Carleton Coffin, Winning His Way, page 7
    2 more examples

    I guess he didn't think we'd seen him 'cause, quicker than scat, he jumped 'hind er big oak tree an' in er minute or two he came out and started trudgin' 'long towards whar we wus standin'; but he had left ther fish 'hind ther tree.

    1912 July, M. R. Umberhind, “Henry Holman's Pilgrimage”, in National Magazine, page 422

    But that same bully was quicker than scat to rat her out when she retaliated and gave him a severe pounding when she was bigger.

    2020, Christianne Van Keuren, Sylvan Elf Chronicles: Battle for Elvenfeld, page 24
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