take a powder

2 definitions found

take a powder - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

take a powder - 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