Getaway

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  getaway \get"a*way`\ n.
     rapid acceleration. [WordNet sense 1]
  
     Syn: pickup.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  


     2. a rapid escape (as by criminals); as, the thieves made a
        clean getaway; they made their getaway in a stolen car.
        [WordNet sense 2]
  
     Syn: lam.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  getaway
       n 1: 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "getaway":
     abandonment, acceleration, break, breakout, decampment,
     deliverance, delivery, departure, drive, egress, emergence, escape,
     escapism, evacuation, evasion, exit, exodus, extrication, flight,
     freeing, going, hegira, impetus, issuance, issue, jailbreak, lam,
     leak, leakage, leaving, liberation, outlet, parting, passing,
     pickup, prisonbreak, quickening, release, removal, rescue,
     retirement, retreat, riddance, scape, setting-free, slip, speedup,
     step-up, thrust, vent, walkout, withdrawal