thataway
Americanadverb
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in or toward the direction pointed out.
The outlaws went thataway when they rode out of town.
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in the manner indicated.
You'll get an electric shock if you do it thataway.
Etymology
Origin of thataway
1830–40, alteration of that way
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“Registration for the summer reading program is thataway.”
From Literature
They went Piscataway — er, thataway, off for greener pa$ture$ in the Big Ten.
From Seattle Times
"The principal's office is thataway," I said, pointing left.
From Literature
“Ebgard’s office is a few doors down thataway.”
From Literature
“Sometimes he slipped and his mind went thataway,” Colson Whitehead writes about Ray Carney, the crime-adjacent Harlem furniture salesman at the center of his new novel, “Harlem Shuffle.”
From New York Times
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