gap it
verbEtymology
In allusion to the gap that separated Salisbury (Harare) from the border crossing point with South Africa at Beitbridge.
Definitions
Of a white inhabitant of Rhodesia
Of a white inhabitant of Rhodesia: to emigrate from the country during its transition to independence.
- […] but that he would out-think and out-manoeuvre whatever they could throw at us and if we had to gap it because the odds were insurmountable, who better to be with than Darrell.
- By 1979, thousands had 'gapped it', or taken the 'chicken run', as emigration was derisively known […]
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA