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Entry 3 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Scram

/(skrăm)/ · IPA /skɹæm/
01 v. i. to leave; to go away; used mostly as an impolite command to a person to go away from a specific location.
imp. & p. p. Scrammed; p. pr. & vb. n. Scramming
  1. 1.
    to leave; to go away; used mostly as an impolite command to a person to go away from a specific location.[informal]
02 v. t. to shut down (a nuclear reactor) quickly, as in an emergency.
imp. & p. p. Scrammed; p. pr. & vb. n. Scramming
  1. 1.
    to shut down (a nuclear reactor) quickly, as in an emergency.
03 n. the rapid shut down of a nuclear reactor, as in an emergency.
  1. 1.
    the rapid shut down of a nuclear reactor, as in an emergency.