scats

Departs hastily, or jazz-sings

Scats is the plural of scat, most commonly referring to animal droppings—particularly from wild animals: The ranger identified bear scats on the trail.

Wildlife trackers study scats to determine what animals are present and what they've been eating.

Scat also names a style of jazz singing using nonsense syllables, so scats can describe such vocal improvisations.

feces

droppings

Animal excrement deposits

pellets · spoor · guano · manure · leavings · wildlife tracking · identification · stool · muck · waste

jazz

bebop

Fast, complex jazz style

improvisation · soloing · phrasing · Ella Fitzgerald · Louis Armstrong · Billie Holiday · Sarah Vaughan · Cab Calloway · doo-wop · vocal jazz

flee

shoo

Command to leave

  • scramDepart hastily, informally
  • scatterDistribute in random directions
  • begoneCommand to depart

vamoose · skedaddle · beat it · get lost · go away · bolt · dash · hightail · decamp · off with you

Categories
Opposites
movement/departure

scatslingers

Remains beyond expected time

stays · remains · loiters · tarries · dawdles

vocal style

scatsspeaks

Communicates through voice

enunciates

Phrases
Family

scat, scatting, scatted, scatological, scatology

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Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG