scat n : singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument [syn: scat singing] [also: scatting, scatted]

English

Pronunciation

• /skæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

1. Animal excrement; dung.
2. music jazz Scat singing.
3. Heroin.
4. slang obsolete Whiskey.
5. coprophilia

Related terms

• scatology

Verb

1. To leave quickly (often used in the imperative).

   Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.

   Scat! Go on! Get out of here!

2. music jazz To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often imitative of other musical instruments.

Anagrams

• acts
• cast
• cats

Slang

• Slang term for coprophilia, a sexual fetish involving feces
• Technical term for feces (from scatology)

Arts and Entertainment

• Scat singing: a form of improvisational singing common in jazz
• Scatman John: a popular musician
• Scatman Crothers: an actor, singer, dancer and musician.
• S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team, a video game
• An American card game of draw & discard, also called Thirty-one, but not to be confused with Skat, a card game of German origin
• SCATS, a boxed game produced in the 1950s by UPL as an update on the Beetle game, involving constructing a drawing of a cat in stages on pre-printed cards
• SCAT, an italian indie-rock band

Transportation

• Salt City Aerial Transit, a proposed aerial tramway transportation system in Syracuse, New York, U.S.
• Sarasota County Area Transit, a public transportation system in Sarasota, Florida, U.S.
• Gold Coast Transit, formerly South Coast Area Transit, a public transportation system in Western Ventura County, California, U.S.
• SCAT (airline), an airline based in Shymkent, Kazakhstan

Education

• School and College Ability Test, an elementary school standardized test
• Somerset College of Arts and Technology, Taunton, Somerset, U.K.
• Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology, Shropshire, U.K.

Military

• South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command, a joint command of U.S. forces in World War II
• Small Caliber Action Team, a group of trained personnel on United States Navy vessels that defend the ship from small boats and other threats through the use of machine gun mounts

Other

• Scanning Acoustic Tomography
• Scatophagidae, a family of fishes
• Solaris Crash Analysis Tool, software for analyzing the causes of crashes in the Solaris Operating System
• Somerville Community Access Television, a public access television station located in Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S.
• Special Casualty Access Team, a group of officers within the Ambulance Service of New South Wales, Australia, trained for treatment and rescue of patients from dangerous environments
• Sports Carnival Association of Tasmania, which runs a series of track cycling, running and woodchopping competitions in Tasmania, traditionally run in the period immediately following Christmas and the New Year
• Systematic Cause Analysis Technique, used in accident investigations
• Scat Records, a record label
• Street Crime Attack Team, a police unit used for taking care of street crimes

See also

• Skat (disambiguation)

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