Definition
To go into hiding.
Origins
From scout, meaning an act of scouting or reconnoitering.
In Context
- "Killed a man and hauled him off a mile and a half and threw him over at that place, and went on the scout, and never told anybody about it ?"
- "The word from Tuxie Miller, who had seen Zeke after he returned home with Becca, was that Zeke was so apprehensive about the arrival of the white law that he planned to go on the scout the very next day."
- "Work like this here's the reason I went on the scout in the first place."