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vamoose en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /væˈmus/
  • (Australia) audio
  • /vəˈmuːs/

Etymology

Alteration of Spanish vamos (“we go”) or vámonos (“let's go”). Doublet of namous.

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive, slang) To run away (from); to flee.
    • World 6-3: Vamoose the Lava Sluice! 2015, Good-Feel, Yoshi's Woolly World, Wii U, Nintendo, level name
    • “Gone away,” explained Mr. MacBride. “Vamoosed. Done a bunk. Skipped with the cash.[…]” 1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon:
    • Speaking of the room in which I locked McIndoe — I will preface by saying that Mac "vamoosed that ranch" that very day and left me alone. 1905, Wisconsin Alumni Magazine, volume 7, page 218:
  2. (intransitive, slang) To depart; go away.
    • You can vamoose now—no question of having to get me out. We've arranged for messages. 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
  3. (intransitive, slang) To hurry.
    • "Vamoose, you little varmint." 1992, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, “A Fistful of Datas”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 6, episode 8:
    • He's got a wife who'll never give him a divorce. She knows about me, but it's still understood that when she decides to go to the ranch for a week or a weekend, I've got to vamoose. 1966, Lita Grey Chaplin, Morton Cooper, My Life with Chaplin, New York: B. Geis Associates, →ISBN, page 190:
    • Some members of civil rights organizations present said they have heard that Negroes seeking housing in the [sundown] towns had been intimidated and that 'vamoose' warnings have been in vogue for the past year. 1958 December 24, “'Sundown' Policy Is Alleged”, in The World, Coos Bay, Oregon, sourced from United Press, via Newspapers.com, page 2:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
vamoosed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
vamoosed Tense=Past lexicographic
vamoosh alternative lexicographic
vamooses Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
vamose alternative lexicographic
vamoosing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
vamos alternative lexicographic
vamous alternative lexicographic
vamouse alternative lexicographic

Antonyms

linger · remain

Synonyms

rush (to hurry) · flee (to run away)

Translations (23)

de beeilen (to hurry) · fr se tirer (to run away, to flee) · fr tracer (to hurry) · cs zmizet (to run away, to flee) · fr se casser (to run away, to flee) · fr bouger (to run away, to flee) · ka აბარგება (to run away, to flee) · de abhauen (to run away, to flee) · cs pláchnout (to run away, to flee) · fr se magner (to hurry) · de huddeln (to hurry) · cs zdrhnout (to run away, to flee) · fr dégager (to run away, to flee) · cs vzít roha (to run away, to flee) · fr se barrer (to run away, to flee) · fr bouger (to hurry) · bg офейквам (to run away, to flee) · fr tracer (to run away, to flee) · cs vypadnout (to run away, to flee) · ka მოცოცხვა (to run away, to flee) · de fliehen (to run away, to flee) · ka გაქცევა (to run away, to flee) · fr grouiller (to hurry)