gap it
verbEtymology In allusion to the gap that separated Salisbury (Harare) from the border crossing point with South Africa at Beitbridge.
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Historical, Slang Of a white inhabitant of Rhodesia: to emigrate from the country during its transition to independence.
- […] but that he would out-think and out-manoeuvre whatever they could throw at us and if we had to gap it because the odds were insurmountable, who better to be with than Darrell.2015, Hannes Wessels, A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia, page 265:
- By 1979, thousands had 'gapped it', or taken the 'chicken run', as emigration was derisively known […]2019, David Kenrick, Decolonisation, Identity and Nation in Rhodesia, 1964-1979, page 2:
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