| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | To break loose and leave suddenly, as from confinement or from a difficult or threatening situation: abscond, break out, escape, flee, fly, get away, run away. Informal : skip (out). Slang : lam. Regional : absquatulate. Idioms: blow (or fly) the coop, cut and run, give someone the slip, make a getaway, take flight, take it on the lam. See FREE.
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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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