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Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8I would presume many words have different meanings in different parts of the country, as we all know. Here in the midwest
skedaddle means to move quickly, as in "Let's skedaddle before she finds us at home".
Just wondering, and knowing that word meanings do shift from time to time and place to place, can you skedaddle towards something or just away? In your example you are leaving a place anticipating someone's arrival. Could you, e.g., skedaddle over to the pool hall, without being explicit about where or why you were leaving some place?
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