elopement
- n the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married)
- The groom's 1927 elopement marriage to Helen Carroll Baines, daughter of a Pennsylvania Railroad vice president, was annulled.
- As reports of the elopement proliferated, Sarkozy began refusing to confirm or deny the rumors.
- He fell in love, staged the first "air elopement," crashed near Hillsdale, Mich.