scram
verb
[ skram ]
• leave or go away from a place quickly.
• "get out of here, you miserable wretches—scram!"
Similar:
go away,
depart,
leave,
take yourself off,
take off,
get out,
get out of my sight,
go,
go your way,
get going,
get moving,
move off,
be off,
set off,
set out,
start out,
make a start,
take your leave,
decamp,
duck out,
take wing,
walk out,
walk off,
absent yourself,
be off with you!,
shoo!,
hit the road,
fly,
skedaddle,
split,
vamoose,
scat,
make yourself scarce,
be on one's way,
run along,
beat it,
get,
get lost,
push off,
shove off,
buzz off,
clear off,
skip off,
pop off,
go (and) jump in the lake,
on your bike!,
go and chase yourself!,
get along,
push along,
get stuffed,
sling your hook,
hop it,
hop the twig/stick,
bog off,
naff off,
bug off,
light out,
haul off,
haul ass,
take a powder,
hit the trail,
take a hike,
nick off,
rack off,
voetsak,
hamba,
begone,
avaunt,
piss off,
fuck off,
sod off,
bugger off,
• shut down (a nuclear reactor) in an emergency.
• "when the power is cut off, the unit will automatically scram the reactor"
• (of a nuclear reactor) shut down in an emergency.
• "the reactor scrammed unexpectedly after an electrical malfunction"
scram
noun
• an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor.
• "the power plant was cited for its high rate of scrams over the past year"
Origin:
early 20th century: probably from the verb scramble.
