v. [Back-formation from LOCOMOTION.] intr. To move about from place to place.
(Originally slang; subsequently adopted or re-invented in biological use.)
1846. Quarter Race Kentucky, 83. He throws the galls in, and a bed too in the hay, if you git too hot to locomote.
1865. Intell. Observ., Sept., 83. [Snail-leeches] locomote by attaching one extremity of the body to the ground … and by drawing the other extremity up to that point.
1887. Hardwicke’s Sci.-Gossip, XXIII. 269/1. They are able to locomote very swiftly by the aid of their fins, tails and feet.
