1540s, from elope + -ment. (The word was in Anglo-French in 14c. as alopement).

1. Sdecretly leaving home to marry. 2. A patient leaving a mental hospital without permission. 3. Slang term for an inmate escaping.

To dream of eloping is unfavorable. To the married, it denotes that you hold places which you are unworthy to fill, and if your ways are not rectified your reputation will be at stake. To the unmarried, it foretells disappointments in love and the unfaithfulness of men. To dream that your lover has eloped with some one else, denotes his or her unfa [..]

Elopement is the act of running away with a lover to get married in a secret manner. In. the U.S., to evade rules of marriage in one state, people eloped to another state where the rules of marriage a [..]

(n) the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married)

Termination of Hospitalization by Patients against advice of Healthcare Provider and unknown to the provider or institution.

method of play based on scoring tricks by ruffing with trumps that are not high

A play technique for winning a trick with a low trump when an opponent has a higher trump.