getaway

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
14
Letters
7

Definition of getaway

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A means of escape.
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noun

  1. A means of escape.
  2. 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!”
  3. (informal)A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one.

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.
    “They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.”

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Etymology

Deverbal from get away.

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