Escapes meaning : The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation. Something that has escaped; an escapee. A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life. Escape key The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal). A successful shot from a snooker position. A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility. That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression. A sally. An apophyge. To get free; to free oneself. To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from. To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment. To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by. To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character. To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.