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third-person singular simple present vamooses, present participle vamoosing, simple past and past participle vamoosed
(transitive, intransitive, slang) To run away (from); to flee. quotations
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
World 6-3: Vamoose the Lava Sluice!
2015, Good-Feel, Yoshi's Woolly World, Wii U, Nintendo, level name
(intransitive, slang) To hurry. quotations
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
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, page 190
"Vamoose, you little varmint."
1992, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, “A Fistful of Datas”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 6, episode 8