vamoose

present singular third person vamooses · participle present vamoosing · participle past vamoosed · past vamoosed · alternative vamos · alternative vamoosh · alternative vamose · alternative vamous · alternative vamouse

1. ambitransitiveslangTo run away (from); to flee.

   World 6-3: Vamoose the Lava Sluice!

   2015, Good-Feel, Yoshi's Woolly World, Wii U, Nintendo, level name

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   Speaking of the room in which I locked McIndoe — I will preface by saying that Mac "vamoosed that ranch" that very day and left me alone.

   1905, Wisconsin Alumni Magazine, volume 7, page 218

   “Gone away,” explained Mr. MacBride. “Vamoosed. Done a bunk. Skipped with the cash.[…]”

   1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon

   Synonyms: flee

2. intransitiveslangTo depart; go away.

   You can vamoose now—no question of having to get me out. We've arranged for messages.

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London

3. intransitiveslangTo hurry.

   "Vamoose, you little varmint."

   1992, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, “A Fistful of Datas”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 6, episode 8

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   Some members of civil rights organizations present said they have heard that Negroes seeking housing in the [sundown] towns had been intimidated and that 'vamoose' warnings have been in vogue for the past year.

   1958 December 24, “'Sundown' Policy Is Alleged”, in The World, Coos Bay, Oregon, sourced from United Press, via Newspapers.com, page 2

   He's got a wife who'll never give him a divorce. She knows about me, but it's still understood that when she decides to go to the ranch for a week or a weekend, I've got to vamoose.

   1966, Lita Grey Chaplin, Morton Cooper, My Life with Chaplin, New York: B. Geis Associates, →ISBN, page 190

   Synonyms: rush