Usually means: Jazz vocal improvisation using nonsense syllables.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCAT, scat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scat, scat, scat, scat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scat, scat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scat, scat-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scat: Vocabulary.com
  6. scat: Wordnik
  7. scat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scat: Wiktionary
  9. scat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. SCAT, scat-: Dictionary.com
  13. scat (1), scat (2), scat (3): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SCAT (airline), SCAT (automobile), SCAT, Scat (card game), Scat (music), Scat (novel), Scat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scat: Rhymezone
  19. Scat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scat, scat-: MyWord.info
  21. SCAT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. scat: Free Dictionary
  23. scat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. scat: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. scat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  2. scat-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scat (disambiguation), scat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SCAT, Scat (disambiguation), scat(o)-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  2. SCAT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scat (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. scat, scat, scat, scat, scat, scat, scat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Scat: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. S.C.A.T, Scat: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scat: Card Games

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A tax; tribute.
noun:  (UK dialectal) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
noun:  (biology) Animal excrement; droppings, dung.
noun:  (slang) Heroin.
noun:  (slang, obsolete) Whiskey.
noun:  (slang, pornography) Coprophilia.
noun:  (UK, dialect) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
noun:  (music, jazz) Scat singing.
verb:  (music, jazz) To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.
verb:  (colloquial) To leave quickly.
noun:  Any fish in the family Scatophagidae

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