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scats

noun

Meaning

  1. A tax; tribute.
  2. A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
  3. Scat singing.
  4. To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.
  5. To leave quickly (often used in the imperative).
  6. An imperative demand, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.
  7. Any fish in the family Scatophagidae

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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