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Dictionary: va·moose   (vă-mūs', və-) pronunciation
intr.v. Slang, -moosed, -moos·ing, -moos·es.
To leave hurriedly.

[From Spanish vamos, let's go, from Latin vādāmus, first person pl. present subjunctive of vādere, to go.]


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(va-MOOS, vuh-)
intr.verb
To depart hurriedly.

Etymology
From Spanish vamos (let us go)

Usage
"He (Eddie Cortez, mayor of Pomona, California) was stopped by border patrol agents one day last summer in his town, more than 100 miles from the Mexican border, and ordered to produce documents to prove he was a legal resident.

"He wasn't doing anything suspicious. He was just sitting in his truck, wearing jeans and looking like he might be a Latino, which apparently is all it takes to look suspicious in the minds of some people.

"Fortunately, as Cortez tells the story, he had a badge in his pocket that identified him as Pomona's mayor. Embarrassed, the border agents apologized and vamoosed." — Clarence Page; Illegal Immigrants Are An Easy Target; St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Jun 15, 1994.



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verb

    To leave hastily: bolt, get out, run. Informal clear out, get, hotfoot, skedaddle. Slang hightail, scram. Idioms: beat it, hightail it, hotfoot it, make tracks. See approach/retreat.

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The verb has one meaning:

Meaning #1: leave suddenly (very informal usage)
  Synonyms: decamp, skip


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Dansk (Danish)
v. intr. - [sl.] fordufte, stikke af

Nederlands (Dutch)
er vandoor gaan

Français (French)
v. intr. - (US) filer (fam)

Deutsch (German)
v. - (Slang) verduften

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - λακίζω, την κοπανάω, γίνομαι μπουχός

Italiano (Italian)
andarsene

Português (Portuguese)
v. - dar o pira (gír. EUA)

Русский (Russian)
уносить ноги

Español (Spanish)
v. intr. - largarse

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - sticka (sl.)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
突然离去, 跑走

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 突然離去, 跑走

한국어 (Korean)
v. intr. - 판을 이용하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 立ち去る, …から立ち去る, 急いで立ち去る

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) ابتعد, ارتحل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮עזב במהירות, הסתלק, התחפף‬


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