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A tax; tribute.

(Shetland Islands) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.

(biology) Animal excrement; droppings, dung.

(slang) Heroin.

(slang, obsolete) Whiskey.

(slang, pornography) Coprophilia, scatophilia.

(uncommon) A blow; a hit, an impact.

(UK, dialect) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.

(music, jazz) Scat singing.

(music, jazz) To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.

(colloquial) To leave quickly.

(colloquial) (An imperative demand to leave, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.)

Any fish in the family Scatophagidae.