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Definition of: scamper
(skam′pər) v.i.
To run quickly or hastily, as from danger; hurry away.
—noun A hurried flight. [? <obs. Du. schampen run away <AF escamper, OF eschamper decamp, run off hurriedly, escape, ult. <L ex out from + campus a plain, battlefield]
—scam′per·er noun
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