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Skidoo¹

  • /ˈskiˌduː/ UK
  • /ˈskiˌdu/ US
  • /ˈskiˌdʉː/ Australia

Rhymes with -uː

Where it comes from

From the trademark Ski-Doo, originally an erroneous rendering of "Ski-Dog" that was adopted as the official brand name of the first snowmobile.

noun Skidoos · Ski-doo · SkiDoo · Ski-Doo · Ski doo · Ski Doo

  1. A snowmobile.

verb Skidoos · Skidooing · Skidooed · Ski-doo · SkiDoo

  1. Alternative letter-case form of skidoo: To use a snowmachine

skidoo²

Where it comes from

Uncertain. Perhaps related to skedaddle. Attested since the early twentieth century.

verb skidoos · skidooing · skidooed · skiddoo

  1. Canada, US, informal, intransitive to depart, especially to depart quickly There goes the supper gong! Annie, you and Mary had better skidoo out of this room or you'll get so many demerits you won't be out of bounds to go home in June.
  2. a nonsense word, often an expression of disrespect Then skidoo, little girl, skidoo. / 23 is the number for you.

noun skiddoo

  1. attributive, obsolete A light that flashes on and off to make it more eye-catching. More than 1,000 winking or "skidoo" lamps will be hung in the vines and shrubbery on cither side of the Flirtation Path and they will wink and blink from 7 o'clock in the evening until midnight.

skidoo³

Where it comes from

See Skidoo.

noun skidoos

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Skidoo (“snowmobile”). "Almost every day we send up interceptors. If some skidoo has come across a land border by even two meters, we respond."

verb skidoos · skidooing · skidooed

  1. Canada, US To drive or ride on a snowmobile On several evenings, after Glen had finished his work and returned to Resolute, we skidooed out to the Parcol and sat in wait for ‘Sea Biscuit’.

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@misc{skidoo_2026,
  title = {skidoo},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/skidoo},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}