thataway

[that-uh-wey]

adverb

Older Use.

1. in or toward the direction pointed out.

   The outlaws went thataway when they rode out of town.

2. in the manner indicated.

   You'll get an electric shock if you do it thataway.

Word History and Origins

Origin of thataway¹

1830–40, alteration of that way

Example Sentences

“Registration for the summer reading program is thataway.”

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They went Piscataway — er, thataway, off for greener pa$ture$ in the Big Ten.

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"The principal's office is thataway," I said, pointing left.

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“Ebgard’s office is a few doors down thataway.”

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“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.”

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