scat in English
- scat⇄adj. of or having to do with scat.
Ex. a scat session, a scat singer. - scat⇄interj. an exclamation used to drive away an animal.
- scat⇄noun nonsense chatter and sounds, usually sung or spoken rapidly to jazz music.
Ex. ... a mirthful and really quite pretty collection of fugues and preludes sung in scat (""dooby do, papa-dah"") (Time). - scat⇄scat (1), interjection, verb, scatted,scatting.
(Informal.) - scat⇄scat (2), noun.
a tax; tribute. Also, scatt. - scat⇄scat (3), noun, verb, scatted,scatting,adjective.
(Jazz, Slang.) - SCAT⇄SCAT(no periods),
supersonic commercial air transport. - scat⇄v.i. to go away, especially in a hurry.
- scat⇄v.i., v.t. to sing or speak scat.
Ex. Miss Fitzgerald, in the space of four records, sings, scats, hums, and noodles her way through thirty-seven ... tunes (New Yorker).