Definition of "absquatulate"
verb
third-person singular simple present absquatulates, present participle absquatulating, simple past and past participle absquatulated
(intransitive, slang) To leave quickly or in a hurry; to depart, flee.
Quotations
Why, I expect in a year or two to see coffins introduced into the parlors of the Fifth Avenue, and to find them, when their owners fail or absquatulate, advertised for sale at auction, with the rest of the household furniture, at a great sacrifice on the original cost.
1860 September, “A Day with the Dead”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 6, number 35