To leave your workplace/a social event/a party with only a cursory explanation or without telling friends that you are leaving. Can also be used as a noun, e.g. to pull a vontae. A similar term is the Irish Exit.
The term came into use after the retirement of Vontae Davis, formerly a professional football player for the NFL's Miami Dolphins, Indianapolis Colts, and Buffalo Bills. While playing for the Bills in a game on September 16, 2018, Vontae abruptly removed himself from the game during the first half, telling coaches only that he was "done" and was retiring from the NFL. Vontae put on his street clothes at halftime and left the stadium. Most of his teammates didn't know what had happened until after the game.
This was the first and only time that an NFL player retired from the sport at halftime of a game.
Guy 1: This place sucks. Let's vontae.
Guy 2: Yeah let's get out of here.
Guy: What happened to you at the party last night? I couldn't find you anywhere.
Girl: Sorry, I got drunk and pulled a vontae.
1. (verb) To forsake, abandon, or depart an organization or group or person without notice or warning at a time of adversity; generally seen as an act of extreme selfishness or corwadice.
alternate forms: vontaed; vontaic; vontification
I thought the date was going well, we were having a nice meal at a restaurant when he said he had to go to the bathroom and never came back... I had a feeling he would vontae me.
Don't invite Jerome to ball with us again, he's gonna vontae like he did last time if we start losing.
He's kind hearted, he has a good personality, he is very mistaken by others that doesn't understand him he can make some mistakes but still tries to fix them he can put a big smile on your face when he's not trying he's cute, he's unique and undergoing, he cares about the people that is in his life he gets angry very easily and easily timidated but is very loving.
Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.
After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.