scurry

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Those fuckers scurry all over the place and you don't see them until they start crawling on you...

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Quick take

rushing about hastily in an undignified way

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noun

rushing about hastily in an undignified way

verb

to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for scurry.

noun

rushing about hastily in an undignified way

verb

to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"

Example sentences

Those fuckers scurry all over the place and you don't see them until they start crawling on you...

Unless something is broken, in which case people tend to scurry back to their desks after the food shows up.

Wonder if they'll do an xroach thing where you click on results and the roaches scurry out from under them to other result blocks...

Even if only to scurry off to a unoccupied conference room for bit of silence, it's very valuable for me.

About the apartment thing; one plausible near future is self driving electric cars that scurry off after they drop you off and go find a plug.

Pine beetles scurry everywhere you look, leading to the not-so-distant demise of rocky mountain forests.

Once you get to that somewhere, it would scurry off to take someone else somewhere or recharge or go towards where Google's analytics show that it's likely to be needed next.

Last time I worked at a company that did that, it was to dump their debts on the old company and scurry off with the more promising projects so they could raise more funding with the new company.

"since iOS was not built from top-to-bottom for multi-tasking functionality, you have to address what continues to happen in the background as the user leaves app and youre app has to scurry and get everything ready in within a short period of time, or iOS will completely shut it out"This is just patently false.