getaway car
Frequency: 6.03.5 per million words
a car used by criminals to leave the scene of a crime
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Examples (10)
- The robbers sprinted to the getaway car waiting by the curb.
- Police say the getaway car was stolen earlier that morning.
- A masked driver idled the getaway car behind the bank.
- They ditched the getaway car in an alley and escaped on foot.
- Surveillance cameras caught the getaway car turning onto the highway.
- By the time officers arrived, the getaway car had vanished into traffic.
- He confessed that his job was to drive the getaway car.
- The gang switched plates on the getaway car to avoid detection.
- After the heist, she calmly walked to the getaway car as if nothing had happened.
- Investigators later found the burned-out getaway car outside the city.