Skidoo

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A snowmobile.

2. 2

   Alternative letter-case form of skidoo

   Alternative letter-case form of skidoo: To use a snowmachine

3. 3

   to depart, especially to depart quickly

   • There goes the supper gong! Annie, you and Mary had better skidoo out of this room or you'll get so many demerits you won't be out of bounds to go home in June.
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   1. 4

      a nonsense word, often an expression of disrespect

      • Then skidoo, little girl, skidoo. / 23 is the number for you.
      • “Twenty-three skidoo!” was an all-embracing, meaningless, smart-alecky comment of the day, something in essence like one of its grandchildren, “So's your old man!”
   2. 5

      A light that flashes on and off to make it more eye-catching.

      • More than 1,000 winking or "skidoo" lamps will be hung in the vines and shrubbery on cither side of the Flirtation Path and they will wink and blink from 7 o'clock in the evening until midnight.
      • Important among the devices which utilize these differences in expansion are the automatic fire alarm, the thermostat and the mechanism for operating the "skidoo" lamp used in signs.
   3. 6

      Alternative letter-case form of Skidoo (“snowmobile”).

      • He couldn't have seen Peter's skidoo, but he must have seen Peter climbing up the ridgeline. He must have heard Peter's approach on the skidoo.
   4. 7

      To drive or ride on a snowmobile

      • On several evenings, after Glen had finished his work and returned to Resolute, we skidooed out to the Parcol and sat in wait for ‘Sea Biscuit’.

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