Escapade

Pronunciation

• enPR: Ä•s'kÉ™-pād', IPA: /ˈɛskəˌpeɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Origin

From French escapade ("the act of escaping; a trick"), from Old Spanish escapada, from escapar ("to escape"), from Vulgar Latin *excappō ("to escape").

Full definition of escapade

Noun

1. A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
• 1724, Daniel Defoe (authorship disputed), "Capt. Howel Davis and His Crew" in :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.
• 1816, Walter Scott, The Antiquary - Volume II, ch. 9: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?"
• 1918, P. G. Wodehouse, Piccadilly Jim, ch. 1: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.
• 2011 March 4, Richard Corliss, "The Adjustment Bureau" (film review), Time (retrieved 23 March 2014)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.