Slang word of the day: take a powder

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take a powder

verb - intransitive

• to leave. (As in: "go to the powder room.")

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  -- Citation removed to resolve a penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary. From "My Mother the Car", Arrested Development (TV), Season 1 Episode 8

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  -- Citation removed to resolve a penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary. From "There Is Another Sky", Caprica (TV, 2010), Season 1 Episode 5

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)