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Getaway

adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans. not-comparable

    "They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks."

Noun
  1. 1
    A means of escape.
  2. 2
    a rapid escape (as by criminals) wordnet
  3. 3
    The effecting of an escape.

    "This dramatic arrival of the figure in landscape had revitalized its whole problem for him, and that on the practice of a métier going a little stale by repetition. No get away from it, Edmund, he had to have the model. And what a model - tinted up by nature herself as the perfect complement of her own harmonics!"

  4. 4
    the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration wordnet
  5. 5
    A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one. informal

Etymology

Etymology 1

Deverbal from get away.

Etymology 2

Deverbal from get away.

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