Reverse Dictionary: DESERT (leave)

ADJECTIVES
► BARE defenseless, unprotected, deserted → 1297 obs.
► DEAD of a house or place: uninhabited, empty, deserted → L19 sl.
► DEAD AS MUTTON of a place: quiet, deserted → 1843 sl.

NOUNS
► BACK-DOOR FURLOUGH absence without leave; a desertion → 1927 US military sl.
► FALLING-OFF PLACE a deserted or uninhabited region → 1908 Amer. dial.
► LEG-BAIL an escape; desertion; the act of fleeing → 1759 sl.
► SCRAMSVILLE desertion, running off → 1950s sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► A.W.O.L. a deserter → 1910 US sl.
► BUMMER a deserter → US Civil War usage
► CORNER TURNER a deserter → World War II Amer. sl.
► DESERTRICE a female deserter → 1645 obs.
► SCAMP a deserter from the field; one who decamps without paying his debts → 1894 (Bk.)
► SKEDADDLER a deserter → US Civil War usage
► TURN-AWAY a deserter, a forsaker → 1910 obs.
► TURN-TAIL a deserter → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► DO A DUTCH to desert, to escape, to run away → 1909 sl.
► GO OVER THE HILL to desert → Amer. World War I sl.
► MOPE to desert or escape → L19 sl.
► RAT to desert one’s own side, esp. in politics → 1812
► SKEDADDLE to desert → US Civil War usage
► STICK TO THE HAFT not to desert → 1835 Sc.
► WAIVE to abandon, to leave, to desert; to forsake a person, place, thing → c1330 obs.
► WHITE-EYE to be overcome by heat or exhaustion while working; to faint from exhaustion; to quit working, to quit on one; to desert, to abandon → 1911 Amer. dial.