"The dealer and the kid go to Bankcroft's place. Scare him into telling where the dope is, and then kill him. Then the dealer kill's the kid."
"That doesn't scan why kill the kid ?"
I first noticed it in the Tv show bones Episode entitled "The Man in the Mansion", first aired February 14, 2007.
A futuristic slang word used in the Otherland book series, written by Tad Williams. It is used in a similar way to suck, and is possibly an abbreviation of scandalous. However, scan can mean anything from tease to creep out.