getaway
/ˈɡɛtəweɪ
/noun
1An escape or quick departure, especially after committing a crime: the thugs made their getaway [as modifier]: a getaway car...
- The suspect ran off, chased by the shop's staff, but escaped in a getaway car driven by an accomplice waiting outside the store.
- Although he escaped in a getaway car, he was pursued by police.
- A bicycle thief made a quick getaway after stealing his set of wheels in broad daylight.
Synonyms
escape, breakout, break, bolt for freedom, running away, flight, bolting, absconding, decamping, fleeing, flit;
disappearance, vanishing act
rare abscondment, decampment
2 informal A short holiday: a weekend getaway...
- Roads, ports and airports were today coping well with the wave of holidaymakers making Easter getaways.
- This does not have to be a long vacation, just a weekend getaway.
- This road is not spared even on holidays or weekends as it is the gateway to weekend getaways in that part of the city.
2.1A holiday destination: the island getaway of Penang...
- Both children and parents alike are happier getting whisked off to summer camps and holiday getaways, far from the cramped confines of the city.
- Adding a few tropical plants in containers can give you the fragrance and color of an island getaway in the smallest space.
- Suitable as either a permanent country home or a holiday getaway, this roadside holding goes under the hammer on July 24.
- rough service
- roughshod
- rough shoot
- rough-shooting
- rough skin
- rough-skinned
- rough-skinned plum
- rough sleeper
- rough sleeping
- rough someone up
- rough spin
- rough spleenwort
- rough-spoken
- rough-spun
- rough-stalked meadow grass
- roughstock
- rough string
- rough stuff
- rough-tail
- rough-tailed snake
- rough-tailed stickleback
- water footprint
- Waterford
- Waterford glass
- water forget-me-not