0 said to an animal, especially a cat, or to a person to make them go away quickly:
3 to sing a type of jazz that uses words with no meaning:
She scats through the melody with unconscious ease.
The jazz vocalist seamlessly switched from scatting to crooning.
4 said to make an animal go away quickly:
Go on – scat! Get off my chair!
In a flash, according to jazz historians, "scat" was born.
Scat, like jazz, is recognized as one of the great innovations in the history of 20th century popular music.
Watkiss has taken to incorporating complex classical Indian stylings into his rapid-fire scat jazz vocals.
Watch for signs like tracks, scat, and scratch marks on trees.
To throw them off, he backtracked and used deer and elk scats to cover his scent.
Biologists have received many recent reports of mountain lion sightings, as well as confirmed examples of tracks and scat.
Scientists gather scat samples, dissecting them in search of bones and feathers from the mammals and birds that the creatures feed on.