scarper
- v flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- THE SCARPERER by Brendan Behan.
- To "scarper" in Gaelic is to escape, and Behan runs off with some Dublin weirdos glorifying their past and dreaming their future.
- Living as equals with equal freedom, the Borstal boys got along so well with their Oxford contemporaries that not a single one tried to "scarper" (run away).