Used with why or when

• when: Wild and VERY wily, they scarpered when I threw a handful of maggots over their heads never to return.

Modifying Another Word

• then: They creep up behind them real slow, knock into their tails and then scarper as quickly as possible.

• all: The people who founded Q, meanwhile, have all scarpered off to Word magazine.

• back: Quick taking of the air on Blue Anchor Beach, and then everyone scarpered back to car when the wind took our breath away.

• already: When his listeners realize they have been made fun of, Till has already scarpered.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• off: The people who founded Q, meanwhile, have all scarpered off to Word magazine.