scooch

Scooch over, National Guard, and make room for a “chilling effect” descending on Washington.

Her husband protested that he was fine, then began to scooch himself on his bottom into the bedroom.

Williams asks the kids to scooch around the middle of a table and think about what reminds them of “their person.”

"This concept of sideways motion with a total mix-up of the wing kinematics is quite amazing -- it's a novel and unexpected method of aperture transit. They're changing the amplitude of the wing beats so that they're not dropping vertically when they do the sideways scooch."

Using the slower sideways scooch technique may allow birds to better assess upcoming obstacles and voids, thereby reducing the likelihood of collisions.