Escaper

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who escapes.

    "The timing of the incident raised the question, almost certainly destined to remain unanswered, of whether, having allowed the escapers to pass by unhindered, the culprit had waited specifically for the yellow jersey group before sowing his mischief."

  2. 2
    A program or algorithm for escaping text.

    "an HTML escaper; a query escaper"

Synonyms

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escapeeescapistfugitive

Example

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"The timing of the incident raised the question, almost certainly destined to remain unanswered, of whether, having allowed the escapers to pass by unhindered, the culprit had waited specifically for the yellow jersey group before sowing his mischief."

Etymology

From escape + -er.

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