/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Scamp [qui exit ex campo]
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A deserter from the field; one who decamps without paying his debts. S privative and camp. (See Snob.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.