To go about rapidly; to be off.
1856. A Southern or Western man, Sir, when he goes skewtin’ abëaout buyin’ goods in bissness heours, keeps his eye-teeth skinned.—Knick. Mag., xlvii. 268 (March) (Bartlett).
1858. The cap’en he scooted round into one port an’ another arter his own business,—down to Caraccas, into Rio, &c.—Atlantic Mag., i. 529/2 (March).
1859. The doorkeeper, having made his haul, had “scooted.”—Oregon Argus, April 16.
