on the scoot en · ADP
Meanings
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(Australia, New-Zealand) On a drinking spree; on a bender.
[H]e wore a collar and tie and had a gold watch, but when he got on the scoot he gravitated to characters like Athol C. Cudby and they stayed on the booze together for days.
1963, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow, Text Classics, published 2012, page 19: