getaway

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: get=a=way

CIDE DICTIONARY

getaway, n. 

•  rapid acceleration.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  a rapid escape (as by criminals); as, the thieves made a clean getaway; they made their getaway in a stolen car.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

getaway, n. an escape, esp. after committing a crime.

THESAURUS

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