Crossword clues for escapade
escapade
- Exciting adventure
- Stunt creates leak? Put a plug in it!
- A duke boarding flight for a lark
- Lark's flight captured by Bill? Just the opposite
- Lark - spade ace
- In dunce's cap, a delinquent frolic
- Help called for after malfunction in space adventure
- Daring adventure
- Dad ceased dancing outside as a stunt
- Bit of high jinks
- Reckless adventure
- Wild adventure
- Spirited adventure
- Mischievous adventure
- Rollicking adventure
- Devil-may-care adventure
- Audacious adventure
- 1990 Janet Jackson song
- Dido
- Almost any Three Stooges movie
- Lark — spade ace (anag)
- Stunt
- Crazy prank
- Bit of mischief
- Deed of derring-do
- Bit of antics
- A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
- Any carefree episode
- Wild prank
- Shenanigan
- Piece of mischief
- Madcap adventure
- Get away with a daughter on board for adventure
- Mischievous adventure has disturbed peace — sad
- Exploit computer key to copy both sides of advert
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Escapade \Es`ca*pade"\, n. [F., fr. Sp. escapada escape, fr. escapar to escape; or F., fr. It. scappata escape, escapade, fr. scappare to escape. see Escape.]
The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.
Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank.
--Carlyle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "an escape from confinement," from French escapade (16c.) "a prank or trick," from Spanish escapada "a prank, flight, an escape," noun use of fem. past participle of escapar "to escape," from Vulgar Latin *excappare (see escape (v.)). Or perhaps the French word is via Italian scappata, from scappare, from the same Vulgar Latin source. Figurative sense (1814) implies a "breaking loose" from rules or restraints on behavior.
Wiktionary
n. A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
WordNet
n. a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) [syn: adventure, risky venture, dangerous undertaking]
any carefree episode [syn: lark]
Wikipedia
"Escapade" is a song by American R&B/ pop entertainer Janet Jackson, released as the third single from her fourth studio album Rhythm Nation 1814.
The song was released following Jackson's iconic " Rhythm Nation" single and became the third of the historic seven top five singles released from the Rhythm Nation 1814 album. The song's music video takes place at an exotic carnival setting, also featuring Jackson's trademark intense choreography. The song and its video has influenced other songs and music videos from several artists, who have cited influence from its upbeat tempo and joyous feel.
"Escapade" won a BMI Pop Award for Most Played Song due to its frequent airplay and popularity among the general public, and was also performed by Jackson in her Japanese commercials for Japan Airlines. The song appears in Dance Central 2 as DLC. It has been included in each of Jackson's greatest hits albums Design of a Decade: 1986–1996 (1995), Number Ones (2009) and Icon: Number Ones (2010).
Escapade is the first solo album by Split Enz frontman Tim Finn.
Escapade is a NYC space rock/ post-rock band formed in 1996 by ex-Drunken Boat drummer Hadley Kahn. Their music is similar in spirit to Krautrock, while variously taking in influences of psychedelia, avant garde, minimalism, ambient and even jazz.
They're frequently noted for their strong improvisational abilities. Even the last minute substitution at a live show of a bassist who'd never before played with Escapade is said not to have affected the band's performance.
Early albums have more of a jam based character than later works. But instead of the jam band staple of individual members soloing over musical riffs, Escapade's approach is more akin to the King Crimson or Can style of improvising collectively from the ground up. 1998’s Citrus Cloud Cover was the last album to strictly employ this method.
Following this album, the prominence of synths and electronics slowly gave way to a more guitar-oriented sound. Subtle editing and overdubbing also began to be used, though the music was still fundamentally improvised.
In 2003, a CD was released which was split between them and Japanese psych collective Acid Mothers Temple, entitled A Thousand Shades of Grey. Their contribution to the split CD and its 2006 follow-up But Distractions Abound both find Escapade increasingly focusing on hypnotic repetition ala Neu! or Finland's Circle.
The band is seemingly disbanded or on hiatus.
Escapade or Escapades may refer to:
Escapade is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring William Powell and Luise Rainer. It is a remake of Maskerade (1934).
Escapade is a 1955 British comedy drama film directed by Philip Leacock and starring John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell and Alastair Sim. It was based on a long-running West End play by Roger MacDougall.
Escapade is a 1957 French adventure film directed by Ralph Habib.
Usage examples of "escapade".
Because he was German, he was familiar with the work of Wohler and Niemann atGottingenand knew all about their escapades in alkaloid isolation.
Yet, dearest friend, it does not prevent my being your Henriette--that Henriette who has in her life been guilty of three escapades, the last of which would have utterly ruined me if it had not been for you, but which I call a delightful error, since it has been the cause of my knowing you.
She was well aware that if they knew all the circumstances leading up to her marriage, they would shake their heads and say that Tessa Lorimer was incorrigible and this escapade was just what they would have expected of her.
But such escapes and escapades were minor compared with his flight at the age of eleven from Athelburn School, Hertfordshire, and the pugilistic Mr Piffer who had oddly picked him out as world-championship material and had instructed him to visit his room for early training.
It was fortunate that the Tokan business stood high on the agenda of the present Council session: the less time on Earth they had, the less chance for some disastrous escapade.
It had been an escapade, something to fill the waiting days while Bloodhound went through the final stages of her refit.
Mark or were with him on some of his usual escapades have been honored with large audiences whenever they were in a reminiscent mood and condescended to tell of their intimacy with the ordinary boy who came to be a very extraordinary humorist and whose every boyish act is now seen to have been indicative of what was to come.
Of course, she had still had the duty of meting out just punishment for both the lie and the escapade, but the doing had not made her heart heavier.
He really did know human nature, and he never dreamt of anything more paradisaical than a Sunday Pullman escapade to Brighton.
Our popular culture feeds the alarm, with tales of women consigned to permanent singlehood, men unwilling to make lasting commitments, and teens engaged in endless sexual escapades.
Gregoire still laughed at the memory of that incident, and lived afresh through all his old time sweethearting--the escapades with Therese along the river banks, and the banquets of blackberries in undiscoverable hiding-places, deep in the woods.
In fact, he was not quite forgiven for his escapade with Miss Carnegie, or for that other involuntary excursion with Donna Clotilde La Touche, till such time as he had acquired fortune from a venture on the seas, and was able to take Mrs.
He was finding little yet beyond boyish escapades, and faults and sins which he had abjured ages ago and almost forgotten.
On the other hand, the scent of a delicately mixed perfume or the haunting notes of a zithern on a soft summer night could excite his greatest passion and launch him recklessly on a romantic escapade whose outcome was more than likely to have embarrassing and even disastrous results both for the lovers and for others among the intimately associated members of Heian courtier society.
Barcelona, where Diego kept busy with his classes, La Justicia, the taverns where he met with other students, and his swashbuckling adventures, which was his romantic way of referring to his escapades.