Definition of "scarpered" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of scarper. (verb)

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• "The striker's oft-reiterated declarations of regional devotion proved horribly hollow as he scarpered for the A1 southbound at the first flutter of Gérard Houllier's eyelashes."
• "Together with other races fleeing the Japanese advance, people ended up in Singapore but the British proved themselves to be as incompetent in this war as they were in previous ones and the population had to bear the brunt of their enemies taking over the island while our colonial so-called masters scarpered, leaving the locals, and some luckless British and Australian military personnel, to the gentle ministrations of the Japanese."
• "The swallows and martins raced around the fading light in a field corner until they too scarpered back to wherever it is they overnight."