scarper in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

scarper in the PONS Dictionary

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Then she scarpered when she heard the toilet being flushed and an accidental fire raged through a week's worth of post-watershed episodes.
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While this was going on, the two guys who attacked him gave everyone the slip and scarpered.
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Before we can scarper to our roof tent, our unwelcome dinner guest is chased away by a laughing six-year-old boy.
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When the pilots scarpered, a 16-hour siege began.
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His physique swelled, his patience shortened, his friends, or "friends", scarpered.
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I scarpered with undignified haste and researched my options.
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The helmet-wearing stockcar driver allegedly crashed into this fence and then scarpered.
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When the redcoats came to return him to the prison he refused to go and scarpered for the summit.
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The guards had locked the doors and scarpered.
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The locals had all scarpered to the safer recesses, as they are trained to do.
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