getaway car

English

Noun

getaway car (plural getaway cars)

1. A car (motor vehicle) that is left with the motor running and a driver in position while a crime is being committed so that the perpetrators may flee the scene quickly.
   • 2004, Tub Ring (lyrics and music), “Alexander in Charge”, in Zoo Hypothesis, performed by Tub Ring:

     There was an average Monday
     There was a movie star
     There was a man with a gun
     There was a getaway car

   • 2017, Taylor Swift (lyrics and music), “Getaway Car”, in Reputation, performed by Taylor Swift:

     I'm in a getaway car
     I left you in a motel bar
     Put the money in the bag and I stole the keys
     That was the last time you ever saw me

   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     The police had found the getaway car in the field. The rain had washed most of the yellow paint off the Mini to reveal the Union Jack underneath. There was no doubt that the car was Queenie. This led the police to their prime suspect, the car’s owner, Gilbert Goodie.

Related terms

• getaway driver
• getaway man

Translations

car in which the perpetrators flee

• German: Fluchtauto (de) n, Fluchtwagen (de) m