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- verb   Simple past tense and past participle of 
scoot . 
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Examples
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And she basically kind of scooted you out of the room.
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COOPER: The story claims that while preparing for a Senate debate, you were giving too much advice and she basically kind of scooted you out of the room.
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And she basically kind of scooted you out of the room.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: As the glass started flying, we just kind of scooted back even farther into the bathtub.
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It "scooted," glanced, ricochetted, or whatever you want to call it, all around that room and you never saw such a scampering to get out.
The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride
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Nat "scooted," stopping to snatch up his hat as he ran.
Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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She was coming out for her customary walk at the hour of guard mounting, but the next thing he knew she had "scooted" indoors again.
A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier Charles King 1888
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Dick "scooted," dispatching a steward for his revolvers on the way, not that he had the slightest intention of using them; but he knew how efficacious a revolver -- even though empty -- is in stopping a rush, and he decided that it would be a good thing to have them.
In Search of El Dorado Harry Collingwood 1886
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And when I rose from the log and threw myself into the shape of an interrogation point, and touched the trigger, at the crack of my rifle old bullfrogg shot into the pond; the hoot-owl "scooted" into his castle in the trunk of an old hollow tree; the blackbirds cut the "asymptote of
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor
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"I kind of scooted off to the sideline, but I could feel it.
 
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