getaway

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a rapid escape (as by criminals)

   the thieves made a clean getaway

2. 2
   noun

   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. 3
   adj

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

   They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.

4. 4
   noun

   the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration

5. 5
   noun

   A means of escape.

6. 6
   noun

   A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one.

Etymology

Deverbal from get away.