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that-a-way

that-a-way is the alternative form of thataway.

Meaning of thataway

Adverb

thataway (not comparable)

  1. (Southern US, humorous) That way (usually in terms of physical direction).
    • Now there’ll be a jackpot an’ no mistake. I’ll be desperate thataway. Like a hungry hobo locked up in a piehouse. Like a weary pilgrim who hears them pearly gates clang shut behind him . . .1932, Robert Ormond Case, “A New Design”, in Whispering Valley, Oxford, Oxon: ISIS Publishing Ltd., published 2010, →ISBN, page 239

Questions about that-a-way

What is that-a-way the alternative form of?
That-a-way is the alternative form of thataway.

Words near that-a-way in the dictionary

  1. that's why
  2. that's why they play the game
  3. that's your lot
  4. that's your sort
  5. that've
  6. that-a-way
  7. thataway
  8. thatch
  9. Thatch Cay
  10. thatch rake
  11. thatch rakes

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