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Definition: VAMOSE |
VAMOSEIntransitive & transitive verb1. To depart quickly; to depart from. |
Date "VAMOSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Etymology: Vamose \Va*mose"\, intransitive verb. t. [from Spanish expression vamos let us go.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Departure | Leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye; Noun: disappear; abscond; (avoid); entrain; inspan. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: VAMOSE |
| Etymologies containing "VAMOSE": mosey. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Herreshoff steam yacht Vamose [sic]. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "VAMOSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | meglóg (bail out, cut it, to abscond, to absquatulate, to break leave, to bunk off, to clear off, to clear out, to cut one's stick, to do a bunk, to do a get, to do a shift, to get out of the rain, to give legs, to hop the stick, to hop the twig, to make tracks, to skedaddle, to skip off, to sting one's hook, to tommy, to vamoose, to vamose, to walk one's chalk), kereket old (take to one's heels, to abscond, to hop it, to hop the stick, to hop the twig, to ooze, to show a clean pair of heels, to slip off, to sting one's hook, to take one's heels, to take to one's heels, to vamoose, to vamose), elkotródik (buzz off, clear off, cut away, to absquatulate, to cut away, to cut one's stick, to decamp, to light out, to make a bolt for it, to move off, to pack off, to pop off, to sheer off, to turkey off, to vamoose, to vamose). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amosevay.(various references) | |
Russian | уходить (come away, depart, go, go away, go off, leave, march off, naff off, scram, take away, vamoose), убираться (clear off, naff off, vamoose), удирать (bung off, bunk, change one's base, decamp, get away, guy, scoot, scooted, skedaddle, vamoose). (various references) | |
Turkish | defolmak (be off, beat it, clear off, clear out, go away, push off, vamoose), defetmek (banish, beat off, dispel, drive away, fence off, fend off, fight off, pack, pack off, repel, send smb. packing, send to the rightabout, stave off, turn away, vamoose), çekip gitmek (buzz off, clear off, clear out, pop off, push off, scram, split, vamoose, walk off). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "VAMOSE": vamosed, vamoses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-o-s-v" | |
-1 letter: moves, oaves, soave. | |
-2 letters: aves, avos, maes, mesa, moas, move, same, save, seam, soma, some, vase, voes. | |
-3 letters: ave, avo, ems, mae, mas, moa, mos, oes, oms, ose, ova, sae, sea, som, vas, voe. | |
-4 letters: ae, am, as, em, es, ma, me, mo, oe, om, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-o-s-v" | |
+1 letter: vamoose, vamosed, vamoses. | |
+2 letters: movables, overmans, removals, vamoosed, vamooses. | |
+3 letters: makeovers, mangroves, marvelous, megavolts, motivates, moveables, movieolas, overcrams, overwarms, vasectomy, venograms, waveforms. | |
+4 letters: flavorsome, formatives, immovables, manoeuvres, marvellous, meatloaves, microwaves, mooncalves, overclaims, overmaster, salverform, vagotomies, vasotomies. | |
+5 letters: ambiversion, avgolemonos, avouchments, behaviorism, earthmovers, lovemakings, marvelously, mavourneens, misbehavior, movableness, moviemakers, nominatives, overmanages, overmantels, overmasters, overmatches, remotivates, variometers, vasectomies, vasectomize. | |
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