skip town
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skip town (third-person singular simple present skips town, present participle skipping town, simple past and past participle skipped town)
- (informal) To abscond from one's place of residence suddenly, without warning.
- The suspect skipped town when he found out the police were going to raid his apartment.
- 2024 February 20, Eliot A. Cohen, “Solzhenitsyn’s Warning”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- We have just seen a feckless House of Representatives pass a ludicrous impeachment of a Cabinet secretary by one vote—and then skip town while avoiding a vote on aid to Ukraine.
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abscond from one's place of residence suddenly
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