Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who elopes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who elopes.
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- noun
Agent noun ofelope ; one who elopes.
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Examples
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As a crash injury expert at the FAA in 1963, Snyder published a classic study of 137 falls, including a sixty-nine year-old woman who toppled from a tree while chasing her pet parakeet and an eloper who tumbled from a tall ladder.
Ben Sherwood: Falling Man: How a New Yorker Plunges 39 Stories and Survives 2010
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As a crash injury expert at the FAA in 1963, Snyder published a classic study of 137 falls, including a sixty-nine year-old woman who toppled from a tree while chasing her pet parakeet and an eloper who tumbled from a tall ladder.
Ben Sherwood: Falling Man: How a New Yorker Plunges 39 Stories and Survives 2010
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As a crash injury expert at the FAA in 1963, Snyder published a classic study of 137 falls, including a sixty-nine year-old woman who toppled from a tree while chasing her pet parakeet and an eloper who tumbled from a tall ladder.
Ben Sherwood: Falling Man: How a New Yorker Plunges 39 Stories and Survives 2010
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Parent know from experience things that eloping adolescents do not, like the high probability of being left by the eloper, being sold and or transferred to third parties, to slip in the slippery slope of social degradation.
Evolutionary Psych and the Generation Gap, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Yet, to be first an eloper from my friends to him, as the world supposes; and now to be so from him [to whom I know not!] how hard to one who ever endeavoured to shun intricate paths!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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She thought that he now meant to go there alone while she returned to Spain, a failed eloper in ignominy, nursing her private grief.
Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998
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Douglas Boy, first meeting with, 64; comes to mouth of Uinta, 70; an eloper, 71; farewell to, 76
A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
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Once get the would-be eloper aboard the Lady May, and, even though the warning note should remain undelivered, he --
The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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When the unsuspecting eloper reached the Trumet church, it would be the aunt, not the niece, who awaited him.
The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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"It's not an eloper they're after, but a desperado."
The Daughter of Anderson Crow George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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