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scoot over
Idioms and Phrases
Move to the side, especially to make room. For example, If you scoot over a little I'll have room to sit down . [ Colloquial ; first half of 1900s]Example Sentences
Taylor, who is Black American, and Ruiz Taylor, who is Mexican American, smile when remembering how the dirt roads in Section 14 were so narrow that cars had to scoot over to pass each other.
“Let’s all just scoot over and make some room here, all right?”
They nudged each other to scoot over, making room for everyone, True said.
The seasoned Masters photographers, typically lugging 20 to 30 pounds of equipment, briskly make a beeline to high ground when they’re approaching a hole — no running allowed — and are pros at sweet-talking patrons to scoot over just a smidge.
I’m just going to try to scoot over to let them pass.’
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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