skidoo

present singular third person skidoos · participle present skidooing · participle past skidooed · past skidooed · alternative skiddoo

1. CanadaUSinformalintransitiveto depart, especially to depart quickly

   There goes the supper gong! Annie, you and Mary had better skidoo out of this room or you'll get so many demerits you won't be out of bounds to go home in June.

   1917, Nell Speed, Back at School with the Tucker Twins

2. a nonsense word, often an expression of disrespect

   Then skidoo, little girl, skidoo. / 23 is the number for you.

   1906, Norman McLoud, Maximilian Foster, The Hermits in Spain

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   “Twenty-three skidoo!” was an all-embracing, meaningless, smart-alecky comment of the day, something in essence like one of its grandchildren, “So's your old man!”

   1951, Tim Cohane, The Yale Football Story, page 161

alternative skiddoo

1. attributiveobsoleteA light that flashes on and off to make it more eye-catching.

   Important among the devices which utilize these differences in expansion are the automatic fire alarm, the thermostat and the mechanism for operating the "skidoo" lamp used in signs.

   1925, William Ballantyne Anderson, Physics for Technical Students, page 236

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   More than 1,000 winking or "skidoo" lamps will be hung in the vines and shrubbery on cither side of the Flirtation Path and they will wink and blink from 7 o'clock in the evening until midnight.

   1906, Electrical World - Volume 48, page 835

plural skidoos

1. Alternative letter-case form of Skidoo (“snowmobile”).

   "Almost every day we send up interceptors. If some skidoo has come across a land border by even two meters, we respond."

   1989 May, Priit J. Vesilind, quoting Jan Klenberg, “The Baltic: Arena of Power”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 614

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   From the manufacture of snowgoing equipment such as snow cats, it diversified first into that of snowmobiles (and later skidoos, or water scooters), then into railcar and locomotive manufacture, and finally into the manufacture of small (less than 100-seat) commercial aircraft.

   2001, Charles W. L. Hill, Gareth R. Jones, Strategic Management Theory: An Integrated Approach, page 312

   He couldn't have seen Peter's skidoo, but he must have seen Peter climbing up the ridgeline. He must have heard Peter's approach on the skidoo.

   2016, Robert W. Barker, Nuclear Rogue, →ISBN

present singular third person skidoos · participle present skidooing · participle past skidooed · past skidooed

1. CanadaUSTo drive or ride on a snowmobile

   On several evenings, after Glen had finished his work and returned to Resolute, we skidooed out to the Parcol and sat in wait for ‘Sea Biscuit’.

   1985, Hugh Miles, Mike Salisbury, Kingdom of the Ice Bear, page 79

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   Even skidooing on the farm in my younger years was not that much fun though I recall one time after a storm, I had gone skidooing and I hit some unexpected snow drifts that sent that skidoo flying into the air one minute and plummeting back down the next.

   2014, Cassie Merko, Small Beginnings

plural Skidoos · alternative Ski-doo · alternative SkiDoo · alternative Ski-Doo · alternative Ski doo · alternative Ski Doo · alternative ski-doo · alternative skidoo · alternative ski doo

1. A snowmobile.

present singular third person Skidoos · participle present Skidooing · participle past Skidooed · past Skidooed · alternative Ski-doo · alternative SkiDoo · alternative Ski-Doo · alternative Ski doo · alternative Ski Doo · alternative ski-doo · alternative skidoo · alternative ski doo

1. Alternative letter-case form of skidoo: To use a snowmachine