take to one's scrapers

verb

To run away.

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Meanings

verbtake 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)

present singular third person takes to one's scrapers · participle present taking to one's scrapers · past took to one's scrapers · participle past 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
    1 more example

    ‘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
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take to one's scrapers. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/take%20to%20one's%20scrapers

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Chicago

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