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- Dictionaryvamoose/vəˈmuːs/
verb
- 1. depart hurriedly: informal "we'd better vamoose before we're caught"
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to go away or disappear: Go on, you kids, vamoose! His wife vamoosed to California. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Departing. abandon ship. abandonment. absquatulate. backward. move. outgoing. p.o.q. peel away/off. piss off. pull out. pull something off. sea. track. turf something out. vacate. walk off (somewhere) walk out.
verb. va· moose və-ˈmüs. va- vamoosed; vamoosing. Synonyms of vamoose. intransitive verb. : to depart quickly. Did you know? Vamoose Has Wild West Origins. In the 1820s and '30s, the American Southwest was rough-and-tumble territory—the true Wild West.
Vamoose definition: to leave hurriedly or quickly; decamp.. See examples of VAMOOSE used in a sentence.
va·moose. (vă-mo͞os′, və-) intr.v. va·moosed, va·moos·ing, va·moos·es Slang. To leave hurriedly. [From Spanish vamos, let's go, from Latin vādāmus, first person pl. present subjunctive of vādere, to go .] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
When you vamoose, you exit quickly. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the loud music and crazy dancing at your friend's party, you might decide to vamoose without saying goodbye to her.
Definition of vamoose verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
verb. (intransitive) slang, mainly US. to leave a place hurriedly; decamp. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. C19: from Spanish vamos let's go, from Latin vādere to go, walk rapidly. Word Frequency. vamoose in American English. (væˈmus ) US.
