Scram

Definition: Scram

Scram

Verb

1. Leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form; "Scram!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scram" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references)

Energy

Mining

Nuclear Energy & Physics

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Scram

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Synonyms: Scram

Crosswords: Scram

Scram! Or I'll build a jail for you. (Scram!; writing credit: H.M. Walker)

Scram! (1932)

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Books

• Scram, Kid! (reference)

• Sustainable Agriculture: Assessing Australia's Recent Performance: A Report to Scram of the National Collaborative Project on Indicators for Su (reference)

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Music

• Scram on Someone You Love Toda (reference)

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Screening plant for separating ore scram (lower grade ore). Mahoning pit, Hibbing, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "scram": anticipated transient without scram ♦ scram drive ♦ scram switch. Additional references.

Albanian

zhdukem (bugger off, die, disappear, fall away, go down the drain, grow dim, melt, merge, ooze, vanish). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غادر (blow, depart, disloyal, false, feline, get carried away, go, hop, insidious, jump, leave, pop off, quit, ratty, retire, skip, snaky, sneak, snide, start, traitorous, treacherous), ‏إنصرف فورا, ‏إنصرف (clear off, clear out, depart, dismiss, get away, go away, go off, make tracks, part, pop off, run along, sling one's hook, take off, vacate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

махам се (make one's scarce, make oneself scarce, pack off, piss off, quit, run along, scat, scoot, sheer off, shove off, take off), пръждосвам се. (various references)

Czech

zdejchnout se, vypadni (beat it, clear off, get lost), vypařit se (evaporate). (various references)

Danish

scram (emergency shutdown, rapid shutdown), nødstop (emergency shutdown, rapid shutdown), nødnedlukning (emergency shutdown, rapid shutdown). (various references)

Dutch

noodstop (emergency shutdown, rapid shutdown). (various references)

Farsi 

فوری رفتن , فورابرو, جیم شدن (Guy, Nip), بسرعت دورشدن . (various references)

Finnish

pikasulku (emergency shutdown, rapid shutdown). (various references)

French

quitter, galerie de raclage (scram drive), filer (scat, scoot), ficher le camp, calter (scoot), arrêt d'urgence. (various references)

German

abhauen (bugger off, bunk, chop off, clear out, hew off, piss off, push off, scarper, scoot, skip off, slash, to scoot, to scram, vamoose). (various references)

Greek 

κράτηση λόγω εκτάκτου περιστατικού (emergency shutdown, rapid shutdown), φεύγω γρήγορα (vamoose). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"סתלק (be off, depart, exit, get away, go away, go off, make off, pop off, retire, scat, sheer off, skip, take off, withdraw). (various references)

Hungarian

elsiet (haste, to buzz off, to put on, to scram, to scuttle, to scuttle away, to scuttle off, to slither, to tail off), elinal (make off, to bulge off, to chase oneself, to cut one's stick, to decamp, to mog, to mosey, to show a clean pair of heels, to skip off, to slither, to tail off, to take one's heels, to take to one's heels, to turn tail). (various references)

Italian

spegnimento di emergenza (emergency shutdown, rapid shutdown), scram (emergency shutdown, rapid shutdown), mozzare (crop, cut off, dock, scoot, snip, truncate), filarsela (slope off), filare (behave, flirt, pay out, run, spiders, spin, steam along), fermata di emergenza (emergency shutdown, rapid shutdown), arresto rapido (emergency shutdown, rapid shutdown), arresto di emergenza (emergency shutdown, rapid shutdown). (various references)

Pig Latin

amscray.(various references)

Portuguese

sumir (disappear, go away), safar-se (hedge), paragem rápida (emergency shutdown, rapid shutdown), paragem de emergência (emergency shutdown, rapid shutdown). (various references)

Romanian

valea (cheese it). (various references)

Russian 

уходить (come away, depart, go, go away, go off, leave, march off, naff off, take away, vamoose, vamose), удрать (bolt, cut one's lucky, get away, give leg bail, give leg-bail, make off, nip away, run off, take to one's heels), быстрая остановка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

čistiti se. (various references)

Spanish

parada de emergencia (emergency shutdown, rapid shutdown), largarse (bugger off, buzz off, clear off, decamp, get, hop off, light out, lump it, make away, make off, pack away, pack off, pop off, push off, scat, scoot, sheer off, shove along, shove off, skiddoo, skip off, slink away, slink off, slip away, split, take off, walk off). (various references)

Swedish

sticka (clear off, clear out, dig, hook it, jab, knit, knitting needle, knitting-needle, Lam, light out, match, pick, prick, prickle, prod, scoot, spill, splinter, split, stab, stick, sting, take french leave, thrust, tingle, twinge, vamoose, welsh), snabbavställning (emergency shutdown, rapid shutdown), ge sig i väg (make away, make off, push along, put, quit, set off, strike out). (various references)

Thai

รีบไปอย่างรว�"เร็ว. (various references)

Turkish

sıvışmak (decamp, do a bunk, duck, fade, flee, get away, hook it, light out, make off, make tracks, nip off, sheer off, shift away, sidle away, skedaddle, skin out, skip it, slide, slink off, sneak out of, take french leave, take wing), defol (away with you, be off, begone, drop dead, get out, get out of my sight, go boil your head, hence with it, off, off with you, out, piss off, push off, swing, swing it), çekip gitmek (buzz off, clear off, clear out, pop off, push off, split, vamoose, vamose, walk off), çek git (clear out, get out, push off). (various references)

Ukrainian

тікати (abscond, beat, bung off, chivvy, chivy, elope, flee, go off, hop it, light out, run away, scat, scoot, scurry away, skedaddle, skirr, trundle), кваплива втеча, забирайся. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "scram": scramble, scrambled, scrambler, scramblers, scrambles, scrambling, scramjet, scramjets, scrammed, scramming, scrams. (additional references)

Words containing "scram": descramble, descrambled, descrambler, descramblers, descrambles, descrambling, unscramble, unscrambled, unscrambler, unscramblers, unscrambles, unscrambling. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Scram" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cockram, csra, Eskra, Saramma, scama, scamu, scaram, scarem, sceran, scham, Schaum, Schram, Scira, Scorah, scr, scra, scrab, scrad, scramp, scran, scrat, Scraw, scraz, scren, scrom, scrume, sdram, sgram, skra, srem. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: crams, marcs.

-1 letter: arcs, arms, cams, cars, cram, macs, marc, mars, rams, scam, scar.

-2 letters: arc, arm, ars, cam, car, mac, mar, mas, ram, ras, sac.

-3 letters: am, ar, as, ma.

+1 letter: caroms, charms, cramps, creams, cymars, macers, macros, racism, sacrum, scrams, scream.

+2 letters: amerces, amtracs, cambers, cameras, campers, carroms, charism, chimars, chrisma, chromas, clamors, crambes, crambos, czarism, drachms, macrons, maracas, marasca, marcels, marches, mascara, mesarch, myricas, narcism, racemes, racisms, sacrums, sarcasm, sarcoma, scamper, schmear, screams, smacker, tarmacs.

+3 letters: acronyms, acrosome, acrotism, amercers, amtracks, arcanums, archaism, armlocks, becharms, brechams, buckrams, calamars, cambrics, camorras, camphors, capsomer, caramels, carmines, caseworm, cashmere, casimere, casimire, ceramals, ceramics, ceramist, chambers, chamfers, champers, charisma, charisms, charmers, chimeras, chrismal, claimers, clambers, clammers, clamours, clampers, comakers, compares, comparts, comrades, corpsman, costmary, cragsman, cragsmen, cramboes, crammers, cramoisy, crampits, crampons, craniums, creamers, cremains, cremates, crossarm, cumarins, curcumas, czardoms, czarisms, drachmas, embraces, grimaces, jacamars, keramics, lockrams, machrees, machzors, macrames, marascas, marasmic, marchers, marchesa, marchese, marchesi, mascaras, massacre, matchers, matrices, menacers, mesocarp, minicars, minorcas, miracles, miscarry, mistrace, monarchs, muscular, narcisms, nomarchs, orgasmic, parecism, racemism, racemose, racemous, reclaims, reclames, romances, sapremic, sarcasms, sarcomas, scampers, schmears, scimetar, scimitar, scleroma, scramble, scramjet, scrammed, screamed, screamer, shamrock, smackers, sycamore, tramcars.