scarper

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: verb

[V] (BrE, informal) to run away; to leave: The police arrived, so we scarpered.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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scarperEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus scarperEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary scarperEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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