escapade
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 8
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Definition of escapade
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
“The Manner of living among the Portugueze here is, with the utmost Frugality and Temperance. […] The beſt of them (excepting the Governor now and then) neither pay nor receive any Viſits of Eſcapade or Recreation; […]”
“[Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. "Is the devil in him," was his first exclamation, "to go to disturb the brute?"”
“He is always doing something to make himself notorious. There was that breach-of-promise case, and that fight at the political meeting, and his escapades at Monte Carlo.”
“Glass breaks, the dimming lights / Sweat, heat and profane debate / The smart ones stay on the outside / While drunken heads and arms erupt / Centered man swings a punch / Spits a tooth, postures odd / A punk rock escapade / Five bucks a head to be king dick in the crowd / We are the ones who must sport the position / Cheap beer, trendy clicks / Lesbian love is accepted and right / Shaved heads meet hair in the mix / Blending the 80's and 90's with hate”
“He seems on the verge of winning the New York Senate election when the New York Post runs a photo of David’s exposed butt in a mooning escapade from his college days.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from French escapade (“the act of escaping; a trick”), itself borrowed from Old Spanish escapada, from escapar (“to escape”), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre.
Words you can make from escapade
110 playable · top: ESCAPED (12 pts)
Best play escaped 12 points6-letter words
7 words5-letter words
23 words4-letter words
39 words- CAPE 8 pts
- CAPS 8 pts
- CEPE 8 pts
- CEPS 8 pts
- PACA 8 pts
- PACE 8 pts
- PACS 8 pts
- PECS 8 pts
- SPEC 8 pts
- ACED 7 pts
- APED 7 pts
- CADE 7 pts
- CADS 7 pts
- CEDE 7 pts
- DACE 7 pts
- DAPS 7 pts
- DEEP 7 pts
- DEPS 7 pts
- PADS 7 pts
- PEDS 7 pts
- PEED 7 pts
- SCAD 7 pts
- SPED 7 pts
- ACES 6 pts
- APES 6 pts
- APSE 6 pts
- CASA 6 pts
- CASE 6 pts
- CEES 6 pts
- PASE 6 pts
- PEAS 6 pts
- PEES 6 pts
- SEEP 6 pts
- SPAE 6 pts
- DEES 5 pts
- SADE 5 pts
- SEED 5 pts
- ASEA 4 pts
- EASE 4 pts
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30 words2-letter words
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