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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈskæmp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted acmpsStarts with SEnds with P0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. perform hastily and carelessly

Word origin

From Middle Dutch schampen (“slip away”), from Old French escamper (“to run away, to make one's escape”), from Vulgar Latin *excampāre. Compare escape.

Used in a sentence

  • "He is a scamp, he is and it isn't difficult to find his tracks and signs of his reckless shooting, for he can never wait, like other folks, till the birds have had a good start at their play."
  • My nephew is a little scamp who likes to leave lighted firecrackers under the lawnchairs of his dozing elders.
  • While walking home from the bar, he was set upon by a bunch of scamps who stole his hat.

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