scarpered

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Fair play to her, she came from the back of the pack and, like Iwan might have done in his heyday, scarpered through on the outside.

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  • Her other slaveys have scarpered, and now that the Goddess is gone, Hardhands sees no particular reason to linger either He flings one very hard Barbarick word edgewise at the antic bear. —  FSF, July 2006
  • The poor lad - whose anonymous, caddish father evidently got his mum pregnant and scarpered - has been expelled from school for smoking the laughably weak pre-skunk dope of those times. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • They've scarpered back to India at the first sound of the orang-u-tannoy from GMTV.
  • We also some beady eyes looking at us from a nearby river - a herd of water buffalos - we scarpered before they stampeded. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • By this stage, two of the girls had scarpered back up the street; I made my presence known —  The RiotACT
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