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take to one's scrapers

take to one's scrapers verb: to run away.

Verb

take to one's scrapers (third-person singular simple present takes to one's scrapers, present participle taking to one's scrapers, simple past took to one's scrapers, past participle taken to one's scrapers)

  1. To run away.
    • He gave up the gold, and he took to his scrapers.1842, Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, page 295
    • ‘I let out one yell tuh wake the dead and took to muh scrapers.’1963, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow, Text Classics, published 2012, page 145

Forms of take to one's scrapers

third-person singular presenttakes to one's scrapers
present participletaking to one's scrapers
pasttook to one's scrapers
past participletaken to one's scrapers

Questions about take to one's scrapers

What does take to one's scrapers mean?
Take to one's scrapers means to run away.
What part of speech is take to one's scrapers?
Take to one's scrapers is a verb.
What is the past tense of take to one's scrapers?
The past tense of take to one's scrapers is took to one's scrapers.

Words near take to one's scrapers in the dictionary

  1. take to drink
  2. take to heart
  3. take to one's bed
  4. take to one's bosom
  5. take to one's heels
  6. take to one's scrapers
  7. take to pound town
  8. take to task
  9. take to the bank
  10. take to the bricks
  11. take to the cleaner's

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