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{
"form": "skips town",
"tags": [
"present",
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},
{
"form": "skipping town",
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"examples": [
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"text": "The suspect skipped town when he found out the police were going to raid his apartment.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2024 February 20, Eliot A. Cohen, “Solzhenitsyn’s Warning”, in The Atlantic",
"text": "We have just seen a feckless House of Representatives pass a ludicrous impeachment of a Cabinet secretary by one vote—and then skip town while avoiding a vote on aid to Ukraine.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To abscond from one's place of residence suddenly, without warning."
],
"id": "en-skip_town-en-verb-QCnD23Zn",
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"residence"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) To abscond from one's place of residence suddenly, without warning."
],
"related": [
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"word": "blow town"
}
],
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],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pǎolù",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "跑路"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pǎodiào",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "跑掉"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "潛逃"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiántáo",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "潜逃"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "táonì",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "逃匿"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "vaihtaa maisemaa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "das Weite suchen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "die Kurve kratzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "sich aus dem Staub machen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "von der Bildfläche verschwinden"
}
]
}
],
"word": "skip town"
}
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"text": "The suspect skipped town when he found out the police were going to raid his apartment.",
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{
"ref": "2024 February 20, Eliot A. Cohen, “Solzhenitsyn’s Warning”, in The Atlantic",
"text": "We have just seen a feckless House of Representatives pass a ludicrous impeachment of a Cabinet secretary by one vote—and then skip town while avoiding a vote on aid to Ukraine.",
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"(informal) To abscond from one's place of residence suddenly, without warning."
],
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pǎolù",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "跑路"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pǎodiào",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "跑掉"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "潛逃"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiántáo",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "潜逃"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "táonì",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "逃匿"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "vaihtaa maisemaa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "das Weite suchen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "die Kurve kratzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "sich aus dem Staub machen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abscond from one's place of residence suddenly",
"word": "von der Bildfläche verschwinden"
}
],
"word": "skip town"
}
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