scutter

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You can make a handful of decisions each turn — whether that’s searching a dumpster for supplies or talking to a fellow survivor about joining you — after which you wait for the post-apocalyptic creepy crawlies to scutter about.

From The Verge

As Scutter rattled off facts, identifying and describing each of the dinosaurs, it reminded me of my own childhood enchantment.

From Washington Post

She had brought her son Scutter, 5, to visit for the first time.

From Washington Post

Scutter, skut′ėr, v.i. to run hastily: to scurry.—n. a hasty run.

From Project Gutenberg

From the rapidity with which young Ducks 'scutter' along the surface of the water, using both feet and wings, they are called by sportsmen, 'flappers'; and from the same habit, no doubt, the children's game of 'Ducks-and-drakes' was named.

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