[f. ABSCOND + -ER1.] One who absconds; a runaway from justice.
1751. Smollett, Per. Pickle (1779), IV. xc. 87. Eternal war against the absconder & the rigid creditor.
1864. Realm, 24 Feb., 4. Atrocities perpetrated by Van Diemen’s Land absconders in the early days of the gold discovery.
