amscray v.
(orig. US) to leave quickly, to run off.
![]() | Dly News (Middlesbro, KY) 26 Sept. 2/1: The command to ‘scram’ or ‘amscray’ means to leave immediately or disappear from the sight of whoever is approaching. | |
![]() | Dict. Amer. Sl. 17 3: [College Slang] Amscra — To depart. | |
![]() | ‘Mae West in “The Hip Flipper”’ [comic strip] in Tijuana Bibles (1997) 95: Schnozzle was given the office to amscray. | |
![]() | Lum and Abner 28 Oct. [radio script] Amscray on the porchola [W&F]. | |
![]() | Yorks. Post 30 July 1/6: ‘Amscray’ [...] appears to be American baseball slang. | |
![]() | Mad mag. Apr.–May 7: Amscray! Agitate the gravel! Hit the road! Strike the pavement! | |
![]() | Mad mag. Aug. 31: Scat! Scat! Amscram! | |
![]() | Young and Violent 55: So you am-scray, Nothin’ Brown. Leave Gobe be. | |
![]() | (con. 1945) Tattoo (1977) 382: Scram! Amscray! | |
![]() | (con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 366: So amscray and come back for lunch sometime, say on the twelfth of never. | |
![]() | Tattoo of a Naked Lady 179: Take a powder [...] Take a hike [...] Am-scray. | |
![]() | My Life as a Wheeldog [blog] 6 May 🌐 They liesurely [sic] grazed on the bushes for about ten minutes until something told them to amscray. | |
![]() | Wikipedia 🌐 amscray Pig Latin version of scram; possibly the only Pig Latin phrase to enter common English besides ixnay. | |
![]() | Life During Wartime (2018) 190: ‘Amscray, shamus’. | ‘Six Feet Under God’ in|
![]() | Widespread Panic 51: He amscrayed to score some Big ‘H’. |