'scuttle' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means to move quickly with short steps, usually in a low position. Example sentence: The robber scuttled away into the darkness when he saw the police officers.
Ten actors in fedoras and tea dresses scuttle through it, followed by a camera crew.
Related: Turkey election 2015: ruling party loses majority as pro-Kurdish HDP gains – live Having easily cleared the 10% barrier, the opposition HDP is now in a position to scuttle President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's plans to change the presidency from a ceremonial role to a much stronger executive position.
Concern over Wisconsin's deficit may scuttle the committee's proposal, which costs $30m.
A lawsuit in Oklahoma seeks to scuttle this effort, claiming that a legislative glitch prohibits subsidies on the federal exchanges.
But General Motors's decision to scuttle its ad campaign on Facebook highlights the big question about the service, which now boasts more than 900 million users who log in at least once every month: Will the firm find a way to make enough money off its huge audience?
Mr Bowles has flown up to Washington to lobby Democrats not to scuttle the deal.
Kashmir's pro-Indian state government meanwhile says it will hold local elections this month, an attempt, say the separatists, to scuttle the peace process.What makes these obstacles surmountable is that the three main participants want the process to begin.
With the retreat of Iraq's armed forces to Baghdad and their scuttle from the main border crossing into Jordan, King Abdullah's forces have rushed to reinforce towns near the border.
The memory of that war is bitter for all Lebanese, but perhaps most for those who pinned hopes, in the wake of Israel's 1982 invasion, on American intervention only to see America scuttle the place in 1984 after suicide-bombers killed 241 Marines in Beirut.
There is, after all, every chance that China's heavy-handed officials, as intolerant of non-conformity now as under the Ming, will once more contrive to scuttle the ships of its visionaries.
Oil output picked up, along with Port Harcourt's nightclubs, some of which had been sadly reduced to offering "afternoon sessions" to let nervous expatriates scuttle home before nightfall.But in recent months tension has risen again as government promises have gone unfulfilled.
