décamper — meaning in English

English meaning

• decamp verb To break camp and move on.
• scram verb To leave quickly, especially as a command telling someone to go away.

Senses

décamper is used for these senses in English:

• beat it (idiomatic, chiefly, as imperative, pejorative, colloquial, dismissal) To leave; to go away.
• break camp To pack up a campsite and move on.
• scram (intransitive, originally, US, often, imperative) To leave in a hurry; to go away. [from early 20th c.]

decamp — full definition

1. verb To break camp and move on.
2. verb To disappear suddenly and secretly.
3. verb To debark, to disembark.

scram — full definition

1. verb To leave quickly, especially as a command telling someone to go away.
2. verb To shut down a nuclear reactor rapidly, usually as an emergency safety measure.

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