take a powder

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb take a powder has 1 sense

take a powder(v = verb.change) skip town - disappear without notifying anyone (idiom);

is one way to disappear, go away, vanish

Sample sentence:
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THESAURUS

take a powder

absquatulate, beat it, blow, decamp, dog it, duck and run, duck out, lam, make off, powder, scram, skedaddle, skin out, skip, skip out, split, take off, vamoose