See also: get-away and get away

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Deverbal from get away.

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getaway (plural getaways)

  1. A means of escape.
  2. The effecting of an escape.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 58:
      This dramatic arrival of the figure in landscape had revitalized its whole problem for him, and that on the practice of a métier going a little stale by repetition. No get away from it, Edmund, he had to have the model. And what a model - tinted up by nature herself as the perfect complement of her own harmonics!
  3. (informal) A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one.

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getaway (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.
    They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.

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