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To run off with a lover and be secretly married, usually without the knowledge/consent of one's parents and family.
Ralph: "Hey did you hear that last January Jeremy and Courtney decided to elope and then celebrate in Niagara Falls?"

Joy: "Wow! They're married?! They've only known each other for a month! How romantic!"

Ralph: "It's the greatest love story of our time!"
Elope by Snuggle Monkey February 26, 2009
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Two lovers running away from all that they have known to escape society and go do it.
"Me and Shizumi-san are eloping. We aren't coming back anytime soon."
elope by yuki sama June 6, 2005
Running way with a love one at a young age. Getting married underage.
"Screech you can't elope"
"Don't call me a cantaloupe you melon head."
Elope by Sarahw1253 March 30, 2015
Go hunting for an antelope, shoot it, stuff it, mount it, take a picture of it, and email it to a friend. e-lope.
I'm bored. Let's elope. *grabs gun*
Courtesy of Michael Aranda
elope by xzooginx June 23, 2011
To run off and get married so you can be truthful to god and still do it..
I am going to elope with my luva Chris.
elope by kim November 28, 2003
Elope, traditionally, means to run away or abandon family to marry. Although the word is also used by workers and nurses at psychiatric institutions (asylums, mental wards, sanatorium, etc.) to describe the a patient trying to escape.
Nurse: Sir, we seem to be missing one of our more violent patients, I believe he is trying to elope.
Director: Verywell, call the guards and get me the governor phone number.
Elope by NJman6969 December 27, 2018