This week's theme: slang/informal terms. vamoose (va-MOOS, vuh-) intr.verb
To depart hurriedly. [From Spanish vamos (let us go).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=vamoose -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "He (Eddie Cortez, mayor of Pomona, California) was stopped by border patrol agents one day last summer in his town, more than 100 miles from the Mexican border, and ordered to produce documents to prove he was a legal resident. "He wasn't doing anything suspicious. He was just sitting in his truck, wearing jeans and looking like he might be a Latino, which apparently is all it takes to look suspicious in the minds of some people. "Fortunately, as Cortez tells the story, he had a badge in his pocket that identified him as Pomona's mayor. Embarrassed, the border agents apologized and vamoosed." Clarence Page; Illegal Immigrants Are An Easy Target; St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Jun 15, 1994. Sponsors' messages: Ever wonder why we aren't just euphoric, we are on cloud nine? Derivation, a fun game about word and phrase origins. A great gift! http://entspire.com Always find the right word with the Visual Thesaurus. Wordsmith readers save 10%. Try it free! http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?code=qt4&ad=aw ............................................................................ The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. -Peter. B. Medawar, scientist, Nobel laureate (1915-1987) Looking for word/quotation archives: http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Unsubscribe, change address, etc: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/vamoose.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/vamoose.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/vamoose.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
