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take a powder

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  • verb idiomatic, US, colloquial To leave in a hurry; run away; scram; depart without taking leave or notifying anyone, often with a connotation of avoiding something unpleasant or shirking responsibility.

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  • verb disappear without notifying anyone (idiom)

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synonyms (18)

Words with the same meaning

  1. absquatulate
  2. beat it
  3. blow
  4. decamp
  5. dog it
  6. duck and run
  7. duck out
  8. lam
  9. make off
  10. powder
  11. scram
  12. skedaddle
  13. skin out
  14. skip
  15. skip out
  16. split
  17. take off
  18. vamoose

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. disappear
  2. go away
  3. vanish

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