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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'scarper' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions scarper verb  (British slang) To run away; to flee; to escape. Etymology: In Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (vol 3 1851) there is a chapter on "Punch Talk" (basically the slang language used by travelling Italian Punch and Judy men and entertainers). This slang contains English, Italian, Jewish and traveller roots. In Punch Talk, "To get away quickly" (e.g., from the police or authority) is spoken and written as "scarper". This comes from the Italian scappare, escappare (compare English escape).An alternative etymology traces the word "scarper" to the Cockney rhyming slang Scapa flow, that is, go (as in, e.g., "go away").        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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