intransitive verb. To go away hastily; leave at once.

noun. Excrement, especially of an animal; dung.

noun. Jazz singing in which improvised, meaningless syllables are sung to a melody.

intransitive verb. To sing scat.

noun. A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.

noun. A tax; tribute; specifically, a land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.

noun. Damage; loss.

noun. See skat.

Be off; begone: addressed to cats and other small animals.

To scare or drive away (a cat or other small animal) by crying “Scat!”

noun. A shower of rain.

noun. Tribute.

interjection. Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.

noun. A tax; tribute.

noun. A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.

noun. Animal excrement; dung.

noun. Heroin.

noun. Whiskey.

noun. Coprophilia.

noun. A shower of rain.

verb. To leave quickly (often used in the imperative).

verb. An imperative demand, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.

noun. Scat singing.

verb. To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.

verb. flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

noun. singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument

"I've never heard anyone say, in New Orleans, even the word 'scat'."

scatt  

scatological  scatology  

jazz  singing  vocalizing  

At  Batt  Bhatt  Cat  Catt  

Thess.  beir  brod  detector  first...holy  

away  baloney  begone  bel canto  bilge  

scatted  scatting  

scats  scatted  scatting