Getaway

Definition: Getaway

Getaway

Noun

1. The attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his car has a lot of pickup".

2. A rapid escape (as by criminals); "the thieves made a clean getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Getaway

Crosswords: Getaway

I was just inches from a clean getaway. (Terms of Endearment; writing credit: Larry McMurtry; James L. Brooks)

Heading for the love getaway, love getaway, (Love Shack; performing artist: B-52'S)

I'm headin' down the Atlanta highway, lookin' for the love getaway (Love Shack; performing artist: B-52'S)

Making my big getaway (Steve McQueen; performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

The Getaway (1972)

Getaway with Cliff (1971)

The Getaway Kid (1928)

Getaway Kate (1918)

The Getaway (1917)

My Getaway (performing artist: Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Foghorn Outdoors: The Outdoor Getaway Guide For Southern CA (reference)

• Our Honeymoon: A Record Book of Our Getaway (reference)

• The Getaway (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (reference)

• The Getaway Guide to Agatha Christie's England (The Getaway Guides) (reference)

• The Getaway Man (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Party boats go out for a 1/2 day of fishing from the Getaway Marina. Credit: Fisheries.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Human Rights

Mexico

There were no developments in the June 2000 case of Jose Luis Mendez Briano and Fernando Martinez Beltran, who allegedly were tortured after being arrested while making their getaway from a robbery. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "getaway": make one's getaway. Additional references.

Albanian

largim (alienation, avulsion, back track, backtrack, departure, deviousness, dissimilation, drain, elimination, evacuation, expulsion, leave, moving away, parting, recession, removal), ikje (back track, backtrack, departure, escape, exit, go off, leg-bail, outgo, parting, passing, recession). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стартиране (start), бягство (bunk, escape, flight, flying, runway). (various references)

Chinese 

逃走. (various references)

Czech

útìk (elopement, escape, flight, rout, run, scape), únik (discharge, elusion, escape, issue, leak, scape). (various references)

French

s'enfuir, prendre la fuite (get away, get off). (various references)

German

loskommen (get off), flucht (alignment, anathematizes, bound, elopement, escape, flight, leap, row, suite), entkommen (elude, escape, evade, get away, to escape). (various references)

Greek 

απόδραση (escape), δραπέτευση (breakout, elopement, escapade, escape). (various references)

Hungarian

elmenekülés (escape, getting away). (various references)

Italian

evasione (breakaway, elopement, escape, evasion, flight, fuite, gaolbreak, gaolbreaking, get away, jailbreak, jailbreaking, transaction). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

逃げ (escape, evasion). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にげ (escape, evasion). (various references)

Manx

toshiaght (beginning, bow, bow of ship, captain, captain of team, commencement, curtain-raiser, dawn, dawning, fore, forefront, forepart, forestalling, genesis, inception, initiation, lead, opening, origin, outset, preliminary, start, stem, threshold, threshold of pain etc, vanguard). (various references)

Pig Latin

etawaygay.(various references)

Portuguese

fuga (bolt, break, bunk, chevy, escape, flight, flying, fugue, lam, loophole, scape, scurry, trail). (various references)

Romanian

scãpare (deliverance, escape, escapement, leakage, liberation, muff, negligence, omission, recourse, rescue, riddance, salvation, slip), fugã (be quick, bolt, bunk, career, course, escape, flight, fugue, hurry on, leak, leg-bail, lick, look sharp, make haste, run, running, rush, scamper, scurry, scuttle, slip, stampede), evadare (break, escape, escapement, flight, prison breaking). (various references)

Russian 

бегство (bunk, escape, escapement, flight, leg-bail, scamper, scape), побег (bine, escapade, escape, imp, jailbreak, offset, offshoot, scion, shoot, slip, sprig, sprout, tiller). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bekstvo (elopement, escape, escapement, lam, rout). (various references)

Spanish

escape (avoidance, blowoff, blowout, elopement, escape, escapement, exhaust, exhaust pipe, flight, fuite, leak, leakage). (various references)

Thai

การหลบหนี (leak). (various references)

Turkish

kaçma (break, bunk, elopement, escape, flight, lapse, scamper, scuttle), kaçış (bolt, escape, flight, let out), firar (absence without leave, break, breakout, desertion, escape, flight, jailbreak, prison breaking). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "getaway": getaways. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Getaway" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cetaweyo, Egawa, gataway, gatway, geataway, getawat, Ghemawat, Gotama, guttata, Mentawai. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gateway.

-2 letters: agate.

-3 letters: away, gate, geta, twae, wage, wyte.

-4 letters: aga, age, ate, awa, awe, aye, eat, eta, gae, gat, gay, get, gey, tae, tag, taw, tea, teg, tew, twa, tye, wae, wag, wat, way, wet, wye, yaw, yea, yet, yew.

-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, at, aw, ay, et, ta, we, ya, ye.

+1 letter: gateways, getaways.

+4 letters: steerageway.

+5 letters: steerageways.