Definition of "scat"

They turned to polar bear feces, or scat, as it is commonly called. […] She and Quinoa [a dog] worked with Dr. Rockwell to collect and study samples of polar bear scat for several years and found that the bears were eating lots of geese.

2014 September 22, James Gorman, “For polar bears, a climate change twist ”, in The New York Times‎

Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.

2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated

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

1988, “Pete”, quoted in Seymour Kleinberg, Alienated Affections: Being Gay in America, Macmillan, page 183

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

1998, Dennis Cooper, Guide, Grove Press, page 170

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.

2004, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Lover: A Playbook for Suitors, Spouses & Ringless Carousers, Ten Speed Press, page 72

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1759, Andrew Brice, The Grand Gazetteer, or Topographic Dictionary‎, page 677

We have to scat! Oh-oh—I forgot to look at the clock!

2013, Eldot, The Champions, page 245

Her mother looked at me in fright and quickly scatted with her daughter back down the hall.

2013, Cecilia Spiros, The Montoya Saga: Premonitions, page 57

Ali tried talking to this short boy but he quickly scatted away from her.

2015, Alice McCurdy, A Million Dollar Man Not a Dime From a Dozen, page 115

One last word, then I have to scat.

2019, William Walling, Memo to the Leader, page 85

Scat! Shoo! Scat! Geet up! Geet on! Nobody's sick in this house! Nobody wants you here!

1903, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Though Life Us Do Part, page 223

“Scat! Shoo bird!” The bird merely stared, its dark eyes glinting.

2009, Coleen D'Andrea, The Harbinger, page 30

'Scat! Go on, scat!' she called, trying to shoo it away.

2014, Marita Conlon-McKenna, The Hat Shop On The Corner, page 24