take a powder

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

take a powder
    v 1: disappear without notifying anyone (idiom) [syn: {skip
         town}, {take a powder}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

18 Moby Thesaurus words for "take a powder":
      absquatulate, beat it, blow, decamp, dog it, duck and run,
      duck out, lam, make off, powder, scram, skedaddle, skin out, skip,
      skip out, split, take off, vamoose

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