vamoose

Alteration of Spanish vamos (“we go”) or vámonos (“let's go”). Cognate with English namous.

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vamoose (third-person singular simple present vamooses, present participle vamoosing, simple past and past participle vamoosed)

1. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To run away (from); to flee.
   • 1905, Wisconsin Alumni Magazine, volume 7, page 218:

     Speaking of the room in which I locked McIndoe — I will preface by saying that Mac "vamoosed that ranch" that very day and left me alone.

   • 2015, Good-Feel, Yoshi's Woolly World, Wii U, Nintendo, level name:

     World 6-3: Vamoose the Lava Sluice!

2. (intransitive, slang) To hurry.
   • 1958 December 24, “'Sundown' Policy Is Alleged”, in The World‎, Coos Bay, Oregon, sourced from United Press, via Newspapers.com, page 2:

     Some members of civil rights organizations present said they have heard that Negroes seeking housing in the towns had been intimidated and that 'vamoose' warnings have been in vogue for the past year.

   • 1966, Lita Grey Chaplin, Morton Cooper, My Life with Chaplin, New York: B. Geis Associates, →ISBN, page 190:

     He's got a wife who'll never give him a divorce. She knows about me, but it's still understood that when she decides to go to the ranch for a week or a weekend, I've got to vamoose.

   • 1992, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, “A Fistful of Datas”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 6, episode 8:

     "Vamoose, you little varmint."

• vamos, vamoosh, vamose, vamous, vamouse

• (to run away): See Thesaurus:flee
• (to hurry): See Thesaurus:rush