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scarper
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb scarper has 1 sense
- scarper(v = verb.motion) break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scat, take to the woods, turn tail - flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" is one way to go away, go forth, leave
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
scarper, v.intr. Brit. sl. run away; escape.
Etymology
prob. f. It. scappare escape, infl. by rhyming sl. Scapa Flow = go
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