skidoo
/skɪˈduː/(亦作skiddoo)
verb
(skidoos, skidooed)no obj.
- N. Amer. informal, dated leave somewhere quickly〈北美, 非正式, 旧〉迅速离开。
短语
twenty-three skidoo
- a hasty departure匆匆离开。
词源
early 20th cent.: perhaps from SKEDADDLE. The term is said to have been used originally in reference to male onlookers chased by police from the Flatiron Building, 23rd Street, New York, where the skirts of female passers-by were raised by winds intensified by the building's design.