verb · transitive · rare

scarper

scarp·er

scarper · scarpers · scarpered · scarpering

бігати, бігти, балотуватися

бежать, провести, вести

laufen, laufen lassen, werden

Chiefly in scarper the letty: to depart quickly or run away fromChiefly in scarper the letty: to depart quickly or run away from (a place); to flee.

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UK/ˈskɑːpə/US/ˈskɑɹpəɹ/

» He scarpered as soon as he saw me.

Sobald er mich sah, nahm er Reißaus.

Он смылся, как только меня увидел.

Він утік, щойно побачивши мене.

Meaning

2 senses

(UK, dated, slang, transitive)Chiefly in scarper the letty: to depart quickly or run away from (a place); to flee.
flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
(UK, intransitive, slang)To depart quickly; to escape, to flee, to run away.

Examples

3 sentences

He scarpered as soon as he saw me.
Він утік, щойно побачивши мене.
ruОн смылся, как только меня увидел.
deSobald er mich sah, nahm er Reißaus.
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Well now… Shall we scarper before we're found?
deNa, wollen wir uns dann aus dem Staub machen, bevor man uns findet?
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The other kids managed to scarper, but Michael was caught.
deDie anderen Kinder schafften es, abzuhauen, aber Michel wurde erwischt.
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Origin

The verb is probably borrowed from Italian scappare (“to run away, escape, flee”), from Vu

The verb is probably borrowed from Italian scappare (“to run away, escape, flee”), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre (“to escape”), from Latin ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + cappa (“(Late Latin) cape, cloak (usually with a hood); (Medieval Latin) cap; headwear”) (further etymology uncertain, probably ultimately from caput (“head”), from dialectal Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”)) + -āre (the present active infinitive of -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)). Around World War I (1914–1918), the English word was influenced by the Cockney rhyming slang term Scapa Flow (“to go”). Doublet of escape and scape.

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