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To scarper is to run away, often fast, and often because you do not want to be seen or caught — you slip off. It is British and informal, a bit old-fashioned and cheeky. You hear it in stories and in older London talk more than in careful writing. Americans almost never say it. People scarper from the police, from a dull party, from a bill they cannot pay. It is not a calm word for leave; it has the smell of escape.
開溜；逃走（英式口語，帶「趕緊溜掉」的味道）
組成Probably from Italian scappare, to run away, built from older Latin pieces meaning out of the cloak — the picture is of slipping out of a cape and getting away. Around the First World War, London rhyming slang Scapa Flow (to go) also pushed the English word along.
同家族的字
- escapesame old idea of getting out and away
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
scarperverb/ˈskɑːpə/
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datedslangChiefly in scarper the letty: to depart quickly or run away from (a place); to flee.
- We were in debt with the landlady, and Joe and I had decided that none of us should be allowed to "scarper the letty," which means to sneak out of the lodgings without paying. The good lady might have to wait for her money—that was obvious—but we were stuck in Manchester until we could pay and get enough together to take us to a fresh district.
- jean: We can't all spend our time nailing our suitcases to the floor, and shin out of the window. / archie: Scarper the letty.
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slangTo depart quickly; to escape, to flee, to run away.
- A horse takes fright and "scarpers," or runs away.
- "Dowse the glims!" said he. Out went the lights, as he continued, "That sneak Whiskers have just blown the gaff to old Slow-Coach, and he'll be here in two two's to give you beans—so scarper, laddies—scarper!" Suiting the action to the word, he "scarpered" through the window into the garden, […]
scarpernoun/ˈskɑːpə/
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slangChiefly in do a scarper: an act of departing quickly or running away; an escape, a flight.
- As a matter of fact we were all pritty flabergasted, for although we had all planned to do a scarper none of us realy thought we would have the guts to do it.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。