abscotchalater

English

Etymology

UK C19. From US absquatulate +‎ -er

Noun

abscotchalater (plural abscotchalaters)

  1. (archaic, thieves' cant) Someone hiding from the police.
    • 2019 October 14, Paul Anthony Jones, The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 163:
      On 11 June 1962, three absquatulating abscotchalaters – Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin – became perhaps the only inmates of Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco, California, ever to successfully escape the facility.
    • 2022 February 10, Dr. Kislay Panday, The Sovereign: Sprouts Of Good Governance, Prabhat Prakashan, →ISBN, page 252:
      Babir's life quickly began to bear a resemblance to that of an abscotchalater. However, by 1504, he managed to hegemonize the territories of Kabul and Ghazni, both in present-day Afghanistan. He then went on to recapture Samarkand in 1511.

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