scarper

1. 1.

   flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

   “If you see this man, run!”

   “The burglars escaped before the police showed up”

   Synonymsscatrunturn taillamrun awayhightail itbunkhead for the hillstake to the woodsescapefly the coopbreak away

   Broaderleave

   Narrowerfleeskedaddle

Other forms of scarper

past tense

scarperred·

present participle

scarperring·

third person

scarpers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scarper

What does scarper mean?

scarper means "flee; take to one's heels; cut and run".

How many syllables are in scarper?

scarper has 2 syllables: scar-per. The stress falls on "per".

What is another word for scarper?

Close synonyms include scat, run, turn tail, lam, run away. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scarper a common word?

scarper is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.