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Amscray

To scram, go away. One of the few exam- ples of backslang or pig Latin which is actually used in speech, albeit rarely. The word is a pre-World War II Americanism which has been heard in Australia and in Britain since the 1950s.

We'd better amscray before he gets back.

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