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thataway

[ that-uh-wey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

, Older Use.

in or toward the direction pointed out:
The outlaws went thataway when they rode out of town.
in the manner indicated:
You'll get an electric shock if you do it thataway.

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1830–40, Americanism; alteration of that way

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"Ain't no use fightin' with one o' them fellers thataway," he said, shaking his head.

When a babe gits its mind sot thataway on a proposition, there haint no help for it but to give it what it craves.

Charon almost said Thataway, as he shook his head and pointed a trembling finger to the distant shore.

"It shore looks thataway, Buck," replied Red, biting into a huge plug of tobacco which he produced from his chaps.

How'd he come ter be fixed up thataway in the middle of the tree, dyin' thar all lonesome, like a poor critter caught in a trap?

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