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Former Gretna Green activity
Answer for the clue "Former Gretna Green activity ", 7 letters:
eloping
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of elope English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elope \E*lope"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Eloped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Eloping .] [D. ontloopen to run away; pref. ont- (akin to G. ent-, AS. and-, cf. E. answer) + loopen to run; akin to E. leap. See Leap , v. t.] To run away, or escape privately, from the place ...
Usage examples of eloping.
For two people who are supposed to be eloping, Mark and Holly told an AWFUL lot of people beforehand.
I still don’t see how Marie is going to extrapolate from this that Mark and Holly are eloping in Italy.
Dulcie would be better off eloping with a street sweeper than marrying the sort of man George Bennett would force on her.
Plainly, he would not lend any support to her scheme of eloping with Miss Daubenay herself.
While he believed her to be eloping with her true love he bore her no ill-will.
Setting aside all else, if it were known along the road that we were eloping, we should be easily traced, and we don’t want that, do we?
Gerard kept a sharp eye on the extortionate post-boy, alighting from the chaise, and engaging him in talk to prevent his passing the word to the new postilion that he was helping an eloping couple to reach the Border.
As for eloping with Ninian, that would be a nonsensical thing to do, because—"