ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Getaway

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Getaway is a noun meaning A means of escape.

Meaning

A means of escape.

More Meanings

  1. The effecting of an escape.
  2. (informal) A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one.
  3. Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.

Example Sentences

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

Word Forms

Synonyms for getaway

Depending on context, synonyms include leave, lam, pickup.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lam, pickup, jailbreak, absconding, escape, fugitive.

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