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scat
1. Excrement; especially, of an animal; dung.
2. An animal fecal dropping.
2. An animal fecal dropping.
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scat (SKAT) (verb)
To insist that someone or an animal leave immediately and quickly: When Kristen saw the strange cat on her back porch, she told it to scat!
scat (SKAT) (noun)
A style of jazz singing that uses nonsense syllables to approximate the sound of a solo instrument: The singer used scat to improvise vocal sounds instead of words to go along with the melody of the clarinet that was being played by another member of the group.
Scat is said to have originated on the Hot Five song Heebie Jeebies when Louis Armstrong dropped his lyrics to sing in this new style.
scat, scats (SKAT, SKATS) (nouns)
Small tropical ocean fish, often kept in aquaria because of their bright colors; from Indian and Pacific oceans: Scat is a shortened term of modern Latin Scatophagidae from Greek scatophagos, "dung-eating"; because scats are known to frequent sewage outlets for their food consumption and they are scavengers, feeding on algae and feces, or scat.
scat (SKAT) (noun)
A fecal dropping of an animal; especially of a game animal: The veterinarian was examining the scat of the deer in an effort to find out what was making it and others sick.
While Stacey was listening to Louis Armstrong singing scat, she noticed that right after her cat left its scat in the litter box, it jumped up on the table where the scats were swimming in the aquarium and so she firmly told her cat to scat and to leave the fish alone.
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(Greek: dung, feces, excrement, offal, fecal matter, manure, ordure)