scat

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /skæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skōr, “excrement”)

Noun

scat (uncountable)

1. (biology) Animal excrement; dung.
2. (slang) Heroin.
3. (slang, obsolete) Whiskey.
4. (slang) Coprophilia.
   • 1988, “Pete”, quoted in Seymour Kleinberg, Alienated Affections: Being Gay in America, Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-312-02158-0, page 183:

     Enema queens, like scat queens, are really the scum of the earth.

   • 1998, Dennis Cooper, Guide, Grove Press, ISBN 978-0-8021-3580-3, page 170:

     “ […] I hear he’s into S&M and scat and all kinds of kinky shit. […] ”

   • 2004, Phineas Mollod and Jason Tesauro, The Modern Lover: A Playbook for Suitors, Spouses & Ringless Carousers, Ten Speed Press, ISBN 978-1-58008-601-1, page 72:

     In short, when venturing into the realm of extreme fetish, ensure you have an extreme understanding of a partner’s boundaries before laying down a plastic tarp for scat play.

Synonyms

• (excrement (slang)): do do, dooky, crap, poop, shit
• (animal excrement): droppings, spoor (biology, hunting, trailing, trapping)

Related terms

• scatology (dung)
• scatological

Etymology 2

Probably imitative.

Noun

scat (plural scats)

1. (music, jazz) Scat singing.

Verb

scat (third-person singular simple present scats, present participle scatting, simple past and past participle scatted)

1. (music, jazz) To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.

Etymology 3

From the expression quicker than s'cat (“in a great hurry”)

Verb

scat (third-person singular simple present scats, present participle scatting, simple past and past participle scatted)

1. (colloquial) To leave quickly (often used in the imperative).

   Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.

2. (colloquial) An imperative demand, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.

   Scat! Go on! Get out of here!

Anagrams

• acts, Acts, cast, cats, Cats, TACS, TCAS, TSCA