(British, informal) Used as a fatuous excuse to avoid doing something.
(British, informal) Used as a fatuous excuse to avoid doing something.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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American slang meaning to leave quickly, to run away, or to make a hasty exit from a situation. The term suggests urgency or even cowardice in departure and is used informally when someone disappears fast — either to avoid trouble or simply to get somewhere else in a hurry.
(intransitive, British, slang) To run away, to flee.
(intransitive, British, slang) To hurry.
(slang, possibly, _, AAVE) the penis.
(US, slang, intransitive) To leave; to run away.