Usually means: Hastily discard or abandon something.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. scuttle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scuttle: Merriam-Webster
  3. scuttle, scuttle, scuttle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scuttle, scuttle, scuttle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scuttle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scuttle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scuttle, scuttle: Wordnik
  8. scuttle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scuttle: Wiktionary
  10. scuttle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scuttle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scuttle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scuttle: Dictionary.com
  14. scuttle (n.), scuttle (v.1), scuttle (v.2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scuttle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Scuttle (Disney), Scuttle (The Little Mermaid), Scuttle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Scuttle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. scuttle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. scuttle: Rhymezone
  20. Scuttle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. scuttle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Scuttle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. scuttle: FreeDictionary.org
  24. scuttle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. scuttle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Disney Comics Characters (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scuttle: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scuttle: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scuttle, scuttle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Scuttle: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See scuttled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
noun:  A broad, shallow basket.
noun:  (obsolete, Northern England and Scotland) A dish, platter or a trencher.
noun:  A small hatch or opening in a boat, sometimes one used for draining water from open deck.
noun:  (automotive) A drained trough between the windscreen and bonnet of a motor vehicle, forming the intake to the heating/air-conditioning system, often also containing the windscreen wiper motor.
noun:  (automotive) By extension, the bulkhead at the front of the passenger compartment.
noun:  (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
verb:  (transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
verb:  (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
noun:  A quick pace; a short run.

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