hideout
or hide-out
a safe place for hiding, especially from the law.
Origin of hideout
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How to use hideout in a sentence
Davies is a freelancer “so I hide out in my study down in deepest Sussex.”
Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror Machine | Clive Irving | August 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYou hide out here till morning and then I'll come back with what weapons I can get.
The Blind Lion of the Congo | Elliott WhitneyIt might make you trouble and we would be no better off, compelled to hide out in the woods, than we would be in jail.
The Boy Chums in the Florida Jungle | Wilmer M. ElyThink he was fixin' up for a hide-out, in case he should need one?
The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories | Mary Hallock FooteHowever, the following day he did take his jumping bar and his roping dummy to the new hide-out.
Ticktock and Jim | Keith Robertson
It was hard to keep the secret of the hide-out to himself; so Jim began to hint darkly to Jean about his lonely spot.
Ticktock and Jim | Keith Robertson
British Dictionary definitions for hideout
/ (ˈhaɪdˌaʊt) /
a hiding place, esp a remote place used by outlaws, etc; hideaway
to remain deliberately concealed, esp for a prolonged period of time
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with hideout
Go into or stay in hiding, especially from the authorities. For example, The cattle thieves hid out in the canyon, or He decided to hide out from the press. [Late 1800s]
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