getaway

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
getaway
    n 1: the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his
         car has a lot of pickup" [syn: {pickup}, {getaway}]
    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: {getaway}, {lam}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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