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Meaning
To abscond, or depart quickly.
Origin
This expression is commonplace in Australia and New Zealand and is becoming more used elsewhere due to the influence of Australian soap-operas like Neighbours and Home and Away.
The first record I can find of it in print is a definition in the Australian pin-up magazine Pix, which was published in Sydney in September 1947 by Associated Newspapers Limited:
"Shoot through, escape, abscond."
For a popular magazine to have felt the need to define the expression it couldn't have been very old at that date.
