getaway
adjEtymology Deverbal from get away.
1
Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.
- They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.
getaway
nounEtymology Deverbal from get away.
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!1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 58:
3
Informal A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one.
- Derived terms
- getaway car, getaway driver, getaway man