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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
getaway
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
quick
▪ He climbed down and removed all his clothing except for his socks, which he left on in order to make a quick getaway.
▪ In case he wants to make. a quick getaway?
▪ You might have to make a quick getaway!
▪ Thanks to this quick getaway aquarium heaters need not be shielded to protect Ampullaria from burns.
▪ Whoever it was must be making a very quick getaway.
▪ Vikings contemplated arduous upstream journeys, but quick getaways.
▪ If Steen turned nasty, he'd be glad of a quick getaway.
■ NOUN
car
▪ Their stolen getaway car was found later in Tiger's Bay.
▪ If the Grinch stole Christmas, consumers drove the getaway car.
▪ The red Rover getaway car was abandoned two miles away and was carrying false number plates.
▪ Prosecutors contend that McVeigh used the Mercury as a getaway car to flee the scene of the bombing five days later.
▪ They abandoned their getaway car in Sealand Road.
▪ I drove a getaway car once.
▪ Police recovered a black Opel car, believed to have been used as a getaway car in the attack.
▪ Power was in a getaway car several blocks from the bank.
van
▪ They were on the dashboard of his getaway van, which he crashed after the £2,000 raid in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
▪ The getaway van was later found abandoned along with the stolen scrap metal.
▪ Security guard Ron Letts was crushed by a getaway van when he surprised a gang stealing scrap metal.
weekend
▪ The specials, publicized only on the Internet and good for weekend getaways, are far lower than any other fares.
▪ These are ideal weekend getaways and begin at around $ 500 a person, including air fare.
■ VERB
make
▪ You might have to make a quick getaway!
▪ He then makes his getaway in the subway.
▪ Whoever it was must be making a very quick getaway.
▪ There, we spent a night at a Yonchon inn and waited until dawn to make our getaway.
▪ The two gunmen succeeded in making a getaway on foot.
▪ In case a dish fails to appease a customer, Steve Carrasco can always make a flying getaway.
▪ After robbing the van, they made their getaway in the red car, which was abandoned a few hundred yards away.
▪ In case he wants to make. a quick getaway?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Big Bear Lake is a popular weekend getaway.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He climbed down and removed all his clothing except for his socks, which he left on in order to make a quick getaway.
▪ He then makes his getaway in the subway.
▪ Some are planning getaways to private cabins.
▪ Thanks to this quick getaway aquarium heaters need not be shielded to protect Ampullaria from burns.
▪ The red Rover getaway car was abandoned two miles away and was carrying false number plates.
▪ These are ideal weekend getaways and begin at around $ 500 a person, including air fare.
▪ You might have to make a quick getaway!
The Collaborative International Dictionary
getaway

getaway \get"a*way`\ n. rapid acceleration. [WordNet sense 1]

Syn: pickup.

2. a rapid escape (as by criminals); as, the thieves made a clean getaway; they made their getaway in a stolen car.

Syn: lam.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
getaway

"escape," 1852, originally in fox hunting, from verbal phrase get away "escape" (c.1300); see get (v.) + away. Of prisoners or criminals from 1893.

Wiktionary
getaway

a. Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans. n. 1 A means of escape. 2 The effecting of an escape. 3 A vacation or holiday or the destination for one.

WordNet
getaway
  1. n. the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his car has a lot of pickup" [syn: pickup]

  2. a rapid escape (as by criminals); "the thieves made a clean getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam" [syn: lam]

Wikipedia
Getaway (TV series)

Getaway is Australia's longest-running travel and lifestyle television program. Debuting on 14 May 1992, it is broadcast on the Nine Network and TLC. Its main competitor was The Great Outdoors on the Seven Network until 2009. It is hosted by Catriona Rowntree with various project contributors.

Getaway (Reef album)

Getaway is the fourth album by rock band Reef, released in 2000.

Getaway

Getaway or Get Away may refer to:

  • Crime scene getaway, the act of fleeing the location of a crime scene
  • A short vacation or holiday, a leave of absence or a trip for recreation
  • Getaway, a 2013 film
  • Getaway (TV series), an Australian travel television series
  • Getaway (The Saint), a 1932 mystery novel by Leslie Charteris
  • Getaway, a fictional character in the Transformers Powermasters toy line and fiction
Getaway (Texas song)

Getaway is the first single from Scottish band Texas's 2005 album Red Book and was released prior to the album. The song was successful, peaking at #6 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's twelfth Top 10 single since their #8 hit " I Don't Want a Lover" back in 1989.

A free limited edition slip-case was made available by mail to house all three formats.

Getaway (The Saint)

Getaway is a mystery novel by Leslie Charteris first published in the United Kingdom in September 1932 by Hodder and Stoughton. This was the fifth full-length novel featuring the adventures of the modern day Robin Hood-inspired crimebuster Simon Templar, and the ninth Saint book published overall since 1928. When first published in the United States by The Crime Club in February 1933, the title was modified to The Saint's Getaway which was later adopted by future UK editions.

Prior to being published in book form, Getaway had appeared in The Thriller magazine under the titles Property of the Deceased and Two Men from Munich.

Charteris, in his introduction to a mid-1960s reprint of the book for Fiction Publishing Company, describes Getaway as the third part of a trilogy of novels that began with The Last Hero and Knight Templar.

Getaway (Earth, Wind & Fire song)

"Getaway" was a hit song for R&B/ funk band Earth, Wind & Fire in 1976 and written by Beloyd Taylor and Peter Cor Belenky and first produced on BELOYD by Melvin Ware who then made the deal to split publishing with EWF. Released from their Spirit album, it spent two weeks at number one on the R&B singles chart and peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. Along with the track, "Saturday Nite", "Getaway" peaked at number twelve on the disco charts. It has been covered by Lee Ritenour and His Gentle Thoughts.

Getaway (The Clean album)

Getaway is an album by New Zealand group The Clean, released in 2001. The songs "Alpine Madness" and "Circle Canyon" feature contributions from Yo La Tengo members Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan.

Getaway (film)

Getaway is a 2013 American action thriller film starring Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez and Jon Voight. Directed by Courtney Solomon and written by Gregg Maxwell Parker and Sean Finegan, the film is distributed by Warner Bros., the last Dark Castle Entertainment film to be released by Warner Bros., as Universal Studios took Dark Castle over in 2013. Though originally reported to be a remake of the 1972 film The Getaway, the film is actually an original story. This is the first film directed by Solomon in eight years, with his last being 2005's An American Haunting.

Getaway (Adelitas Way album)

' Getaway ' is the fourth studio album by the American hard rock band Adelitas Way released on February 26, 2016.

Usage examples of "getaway".

He came to Auer and executed a neat, military right-face, hoping to make his getaway before the guy in the pickup realized he was gone.

Though he was willing to bluff it out as Cruke, the big-shot certainly intended to be ready for a prompt getaway, if needed.

He still had a chance to reach the hotel side exit before Snaper and Hooley came rushing out to make their getaway.

Harlem sunsets, a jorum of skee, a chippie with boss getaway sticks, giving a canary the Broderick.

Switters since his digestive tract found arrack as combustible as pisco and since sobriety could be a useful ally in a hasty getaway.

Blades spirited their ward away, they left Rodden to cover their getaway, although he was by far the youngest.

Instead of loading their haul into cars and attempting a getaway on one of the expressway lanes, instead of leaving the tunnel and making it across the countryside to another road, he had come up with a smarter idea.

She sent the company captain ahead with two scouts and instructed the rest of the company to follow twenty paces behind, but she could not quite make her getaway before Merula the Marvelous came puffing up from behind.

The fact that he was making a quick getaway was evident when Spooner glanced toward the arrow indicator in the dial above the closed doors of the elevator shaft.

Brand was too anxious to cloak his own getaway to pay much attention to the car in which Spooner sat huddled low behind the wheel.

With a bit of luck and sufficient smoke to obscure their getaway, they might get the White Nun out of the stook before it caught fire and run with her towards this cave.

They had chosen the switcher for their getaway, but why they had burdened themselves with the whale car was a mystery, unless it had happened by coupling the thing accidentally.

Knowing that Trame was staging a getaway, The Shadow was coming back to halt it.

My caseworker broke down and cried when I told her that the girl on the roof made a getaway.

Is Flimflam, he asked a moment later, why we made such a precipitous dawn getaway?