on the gallop

on the gallop
   Irish (of a criminal)
   evading capture
   A variant of the standard English on the run:
    Apart from six months spent 'on the gallop' in Eire, he's been away for eighteen years. (Stamp, 1994, writing about a terrorist bomb-maker who had spent much of his life in prison)

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