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To skedaddle is to leave a place fast, especially because you do not want to be caught or told off. It is a , old-fashioned-sounding verb — the kind of word a parent, a storybook, or a newspaper column might use with a smile, not a serious police report. You skedaddle from the kitchen when you hear , or from a party before the cleaning starts. People also use it as a noun (a skedaddle) for that quick escape, but the verb is the usual one. It is informal and humorous; in a formal letter you would just say leave quickly.
開溜、趕緊跑掉（帶點開玩笑的口吻）
組成The word shows up around 1861 in the New York Tribune and spread in American Civil War army talk, then into ordinary English. It may be a twist on the old British dialect verb scaddle, “to run off in a fright,” from the adjective scaddle “wild, timid, skittish,” going back to Middle English scathel / skadylle (“harmful, fierce, wild”), perhaps from Old Norse or Old English roots related to harm. Other links have been suggested; none is certain.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
skedaddleverb/skɪˈdædɫ̩/
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informalTo move or run away quickly.
- "Well," continued the youth, "lots of good-a-'nough men have thought they was going to do great things before the fight, but when the time come they skedaddled."
- Looked up at your office and all of it empty and I nearly cried. Cigar guy, out viewing his big time display window comes across the street. Wants to know if he can help. Told him to mind his own business. You know what he said, sister if you got any connection with that guy, they caught up with him, so you better beat it. I said sic him Goliath. Did that guy skidaddle.
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regionalTo spill; to scatter.
skedaddlenoun/skɪˈdædɫ̩/
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informalThe act of running away; a scurrying off.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。