skiddoo

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Stewart whose commercial flagships flanked City Hall; the iconic figures who were feted with tons of ticker tape in the Canyon of Heroes; the loiterers who gawked at skirts sent billowing by the wind tunnel that the Flatiron Building created at 23rd Street and were shooed away by cops who bellowed “23 skiddoo”; and the ghosts along the stretch of Broadway that undulates past Times Square, whose reputation for bright lights and shattered dreams were epitomized in its legacy as the Great White Way and the Street of Broken Hearts.

From New York Times

And what does “twenty-four skiddoo” mean, at the end of it?

From Literature

Lady turn around, turn around, turn around, Lady touch the ground, touch the ground, touch the ground; Lady show your shoe, show your shoe, show your shoe, Lady, lady, twenty-four skiddoo!

From Literature

There is a strong temptation to say "Catch-23, please skiddoo."

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh brother, 23 skiddoo, and oh you kid!

From Time Magazine Archive