scarper

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  • And then the office door opened and it was Mr. Meyer and Mr. Knight and you done—you did a quick scarper, Miss Bracey. —  Killer Dolphin - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 24
  • For a second I had a terrible urge to scarper, clear off and never see her again. —  process 10
  • So Mel had good personal reason to scarper, not just money. —  Paid and Loving Eyes - Lovejoy - Jonathan Gash
  • Taylor's best chance of winning this fight is by turning it into an Amateur Olympic final, score then scarper. —  East Side Boxing
  • Tempting though it was to scarper off to the local library and pay the £2 or so needed for the copying, it suddenly occurred to me that, with a 3 megapixel camera in my Nokia N93, surely that was good enough to produce a good-enough representation of anything put before it? —  All About Symbian - News
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