scarper
Make hasty exit
Scarper is British slang meaning to run away or flee, especially to escape trouble or avoid getting caught: When the police arrived, the thieves scarpered.
The word carries a sense of hasty, undignified departure—less neutral than "leave," more urgent than "go." Rarely used in American English.
Flee to avoid capture
- boltThreaded rod for nuts
- run awayDepart hastily to escape
- take flightDepart swiftly, often fearfully
- vamooseDepart hastily
skedaddle · decamp · flee · dash off · make off · leg it · do a runner · hightail
Skillfully avoid capture
- evadeEscape by cunning
- dodgeAvoid by quick movement
- slip awayDepart without detection
- shake offRemove by vigorous motion
give the slip · outrun · duck out · sidestep · circumvent · get away · break free · wriggle out
abscond
Flee to avoid capture
- boltThreaded rod for nuts
- run awayDepart hastily to escape
- take flightDepart swiftly, often fearfully
vamoose · skedaddle · decamp · flee · dash off · make off · leg it · do a runner · hightail · cut and run
elude
Skillfully avoid capture
give the slip · shake off · outrun · duck out · sidestep · circumvent · get away · break free · wriggle out · extricate
sneak off
Depart secretly, unnoticed
- slip outDepart undetected
- steal awayDepart secretly, unobserved
- ghostApparition of the dead
- escapeflee, run away, get away, flight, breakout
- British slangblag, bloke, bodge, blagger, bobby
- dismissalsgo away, get out, leave, scram, beat it
- Escape Termsbreak free, get away, run away, getaway, break out
- leavingdeparture, quit, walking away, withdrawing, bail
- Cockney slangapples and pears, boat race, mince pies, porky pies, rhyming slang
scarperconfront
Face squarely, address directly
face · stand one's ground · hold one's ground · stick it out · see it through