scram
Depart hastily, informally
Scram means to leave quickly, usually as a command: Scram, kid, you're bothering me.
The word is informal and slightly dated, evoking mid-twentieth-century American speech.
In nuclear engineering, scram is an emergency reactor shutdown—either a verb or noun: The operator scrammed the reactor; an automatic scram.
Flight from captivity
- boltThreaded rod for nuts
- runMove swiftly on foot
- dashQuick burst or pinch
- fleeDepart swiftly from threat
abscond · vanish · disappear · elude · evade · lam · exfiltrate · slip
Cessation of operations
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- control rodsNeutron-absorbing reactor components
- nuclearOf atomic energy
- reactorControlled fission apparatus
safety · cooldown · insertion · chain reaction · fission · meltdown · containment · critical
escape
Flight from captivity
flee · abscond · vanish · disappear · elude · evade · lam · exfiltrate · slip · dart
skedaddle
Depart hastily, often fearfully
beat it · get lost · go away · out · begone · off · scat · skidoo · git · buzz off
shutdown
Cessation of operations
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- control rodsNeutron-absorbing reactor components
- nuclearOf atomic energy
reactor · safety · cooldown · insertion · chain reaction · fission · meltdown · containment · critical · neutron absorption
leave
Sanctioned time away
retreat · evacuate · decamp · vacate · abandon · clear out · take off · split · bail · bounce
- vintage slangbee's knees, cat's meow, copacetic, groovy, hep
- escapeescape, flee, run away, get away, flight
- safety controlspanic button, kill switch, brake, e-stop, circuit breaker
- dismissalsgo away, get out, leave, beat it, buzz off
- nuclear physicsnuclear energy, fission, nuclear fission, neutron, proton
- reactor safetycontrol rods, safety valves, pressure vessel, passive cooling, fail-safe
scramwelcome
Hospitable greeting offered
come in · stay awhile · make yourself at home · stick around
- word scramblePuzzle with shuffled letters
- tofu scrambleSeasoned crumbled bean curd
- mad scramble
- Scramble for AfricaRapid European colonization period
- rock scramblingUnroped climbing over rough terrain
- rock scrambleSteep terrain requiring hands
scramble, scrambling, unscramble, scrambles, scrammed, scramblers, scrambler, unscrambled, unscrambling