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!"
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!"
by Snuggle Monkey February 26, 2009
Get the Elopemug. by Sarahw1253 March 30, 2015
Get the Elopemug. 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.
Director: Verywell, call the guards and get me the governor phone number.
by NJman6969 December 27, 2018
Get the Elopemug. The act of two lovers running away from family and society to live together, traditionally in the north.
by alex March 4, 2005
Get the elopemug. by yuki sama June 6, 2005
Get the elopemug. by pimpxoxo December 9, 2013
Get the elopedmug. 