Crossword clues for scarper
Wiktionary
vb. (context British slang English) To run away; to flee; to escape.
WordNet
v. flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" [syn: run, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away]
Usage examples of "scarper".
And then there was a lot of brouhaha, if you remember, because a fortnight after the engagement our mama upped and scarpered with her hairdresser.
And then there was a lot of brouhaha, if you remember, because a fortnight after the engagement our mama upped and scarpered with her hairdresser.
Most of the noble types just never showed up, and Monmouth scarpered, did a bunk, headed for the border, the way the Stuarts always did.
I went to bed, yes, and I woke up in bed to find an unknown young woman, who I later discovered was one of your clients, going through my clothes--a young woman who scarpered with the contents of my wallet too fast for me to be able to find out how she got in or why she was in our bedroom.
She had informed Paul of her suspicions, and he was so shocked by the double whammy of learning that his wife was both illegally pregnant and possibly scarpered that he was still in his Concord office, vacillating about what to do.
The sight of V’line and his bronze might be enough to send Bloors scarpering off, if only to warn Thella.
Who leaves a little drawing of a bishop behind after scarpering with his loot.
Scare the daylights out of some poor woman so she scarpers and gets herself smothered in a gravel-pit.