RUNAGATE

PRONUNCIATION: (RUHN-uh-gayt)

MEANING: noun:
1. A person who has run away.
2. A vagabond or wanderer.

ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of renegate (renegade), past participle of renegare (to renounce), from re- (back) + negare (to deny). Earliest documented use: 1530.
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TUNAGATE - how fish get past dams on their annual migration up the river to spawn

RUNT GATE - a tiny door in a fence so the little ones can get through

LUNAGATE - the political scandal about selling the moon