(UK, slang, dated) To depart quickly from a rented place without paying.
(UK, slang, dated) To depart quickly from a rented place without paying.
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(transitive, dated) Chiefly in scarper the letty: to depart quickly or run away from (a place); to flee.
(intransitive) To depart quickly; to escape, to flee, to run away.
(UK, slang) Chiefly in do a scarper: an act of departing quickly or running away; an escape, a flight.
(UK, slang, obsolete) To let fly; to attack or challenge someone.
(US, Florida, dialect) A rascal.