Definition of "scat" in English

noun

1. A tax; tribute.

2. (Shetland) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.

noun

1. (biology) Animal excrement; droppings, dung.

   • 2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.

2. (slang) Heroin.

3. (slang, obsolete) Whiskey.

4. (slang, pornography) Coprophilia, scatophilia.

   • Enema queens, like scat queens, are really the scum of the earth.

noun

1. (uncommon) A blow; a hit, an impact.

2. (UK, dialect) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.

noun

1. (music, jazz) Scat singing.

verb

1. (music, jazz) To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.

verb

1. (colloquial) To leave quickly.

   • Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.

interjection

1. (colloquial) An imperative demand to leave, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.

   • Scat! Go on! Get out of here!

noun

1. Any fish in the family Scatophagidae.