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Meaning of abscotchalater | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Someone hiding from the police.

archaic

Examples

“On 11 June 1962, three absquatulating abscotchalaters – Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglinbecame perhaps the only inmates of Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco, California, ever to successfully escape the facility.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
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