decamp

• French décamper, Old French descamper.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːˈkæmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

decamp (third-person singular simple present decamps, present participle decamping, simple past and past participle decamped)

1. (intransitive) To break up camp and move on.
2. (intransitive) To disappear suddenly and secretly.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 16]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483:

     Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.

• abscond
• absquatulate

• camped