📚 Scarper, verb. 🔉 /ˈskɑːpə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (British • informal • no object): Run away. ❗️ Examples: 1. They left the stuff where it was and scarpered. 2. When the baby did arrive, the father scarpered for good. 3. By grief he does not mean what grief father caused him by scarpering, but the grief Davis might cause turning up. 4. When he warned her that he had called the police she soon scarpered. 5. The rat, who, arguably, has been the cause of near tragedy, scarpers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic