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• v  flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

• THE SCARPERER by Brendan Behan.
• To "scarper" in Gaelic is to escape, and Behan runs off with some Dublin weirdos glorifying their past and dreaming their future.
• Living as equals with equal freedom, the Borstal boys got along so well with their Oxford contemporaries that not a single one tried to "scarper" (run away).

• scat
• run
• turn tail
• lam
• run away
• hightail it
• bunk
• head for the hills
• take to the woods
• escape
• fly the coop
• break away