SCAT, QUICKER THAN

(informal) quickly; very fast (possibly from the term ss'cat, a hiss followed by the word cat used in driving away cats). —SHSBC Binder 9 Approved Glossary

(slang) very fast. (From the early-nineteenth-century term ss'cat, a hissing address designed to drive away a cat.) I could sell the pc on the rudiments being out quicker than scat. -See Checks, Withholds (10 Jan. 62) (informal) quickly; very fast (possibly from the term ss'cat, a hiss followed by the word cat used in driving away cats). (slang) very fast. (From the early-19th-century term ss'cat, a hissing address designed to drive away a cat.)