getaway

See also: get-away, and get away

English

Alternative forms

• get-away (adjective)

Etymology

Deverbal from get away.

Noun

getaway (plural getaways)

1. A means of escape.
2. The effecting of an escape.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 58:

     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.

Synonyms

• (vacation, holiday): leave, time off; see also Thesaurus:vacation

Derived terms

• getaway car
• getaway driver
• getaway man

 

Translations

means of escape

• Georgian: გასაქცევი (gasakcevi)
• Italian: fuga (it) f

effecting of an escape

• Bulgarian: бягство n (bjagstvo), измъкване (bg) n (izmǎkvane)
• Georgian: გაქცევა (gakceva), გაპარვა (gaṗarva)
• German: Flucht (de) f

vacation or destination

• Georgian: გაქცევა (gakceva), გაპარვა (gaṗarva)
• German: Kurzurlaub (de) m (vacation); Erholungsort (de) m (destination)
• Italian: fuga (it) f
• Portuguese: retiro (pt)
• Spanish: escapada (es) f

Adjective

getaway (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.

   They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.

Translations

pertaining to an escape

• German: Flucht- (de)
• Spanish: fúgido (es), fugaz (es)

Anagrams

• gateway, waygate