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Getaway

noun

The attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration. Synonym: pickup.

A rapid escape (as by criminals). Synonym: lam. "After the expose he had to take it on the lam"

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"Getaway" Quotes from Famous Books

... he exclaimed, as he came to a huge roll of bills and a mass of silver and gold coin. "Trying to double-cross us all the time. That was her clever game—to give him the hours he needed to gather what money he could save and make a clean getaway. Even cocaine doesn't destroy the interest of men and women in that," he concluded, turning over to Carton the wealth which Haddon had amassed as one of the meanest grafters of the city ...

— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve

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... trouble you, but we're looking for a party and we ain't goin' to stop till we find him. We just thought he might have beat it into this room for a getaway. If you want anything, just call us, for we'll be up and down these ...

— The Ghost Breaker - A Novel Based Upon the Play • Charles Goddard

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... awe; and the next week's Box of Curios said of it editorially: "And while our little Yokohama police know much of ju-jitsu, they found that they had still something to learn of the short jab to the jaw and the quick getaway." ...

— The White Mice • Richard Harding Davis

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... was, though, that stood out for makin' the nervy getaway? Auntie. Uh-huh! All this panicky talk by Meyers and the yacht captain only warmed up her sportin' blood. What right, she wanted to know, had a snippy little gunboat to hold up a private party of perfectly good New Yorkers and ask 'em where they was goin'? Humph! What was the government, ...

— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford

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... nose the open air they'll begin yapping 'n' let 'em on to us. We can't risk her under fire. So I'm going to back along the edge of the ridge and give it to 'em as fast as I can work the gun. They'll all turn to me, and that's the time for you to open the door and make your getaway. I'll be with you ...

— Isobel • James Oliver Curwood

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