"gap it" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "In allusion to the gap that separated Salisbury (Harare) from the border crossing point with South Africa at Beitbridge.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gaps it",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gapping it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gapped it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gapped it",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "gap it (third-person singular simple present gaps it, present participle gapping it, simple past and past participle gapped it)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        },
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        },
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      "examples": [
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              99,
              105
            ]
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          "ref": "2015, Hannes Wessels, A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia, page 265:",
          "text": "[…] but that he would out-think and out-manoeuvre whatever they could throw at us and if we had to gap it because the odds were insurmountable, who better to be with than Darrell.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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              23,
              33
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          ],
          "ref": "2019, David Kenrick, Decolonisation, Identity and Nation in Rhodesia, 1964-1979, page 2:",
          "text": "By 1979, thousands had 'gapped it', or taken the 'chicken run', as emigration was derisively known […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a white inhabitant of Rhodesia: to emigrate from the country during its transition to independence."
      ],
      "id": "en-gap_it-en-verb-V-3wowVI",
      "links": [
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ],
        [
          "Rhodesia",
          "Rhodesia"
        ],
        [
          "emigrate",
          "emigrate"
        ],
        [
          "transition",
          "transition"
        ],
        [
          "independence",
          "independence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, historical) Of a white inhabitant of Rhodesia: to emigrate from the country during its transition to independence."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "chicken run"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "take the gap"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gap it"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "In allusion to the gap that separated Salisbury (Harare) from the border crossing point with South Africa at Beitbridge.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gaps it",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gapping it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gapped it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gapped it",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "gap it (third-person singular simple present gaps it, present participle gapping it, simple past and past participle gapped it)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "chicken run"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "2015, Hannes Wessels, A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia, page 265:",
          "text": "[…] but that he would out-think and out-manoeuvre whatever they could throw at us and if we had to gap it because the odds were insurmountable, who better to be with than Darrell.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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            [
              23,
              33
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2019, David Kenrick, Decolonisation, Identity and Nation in Rhodesia, 1964-1979, page 2:",
          "text": "By 1979, thousands had 'gapped it', or taken the 'chicken run', as emigration was derisively known […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a white inhabitant of Rhodesia: to emigrate from the country during its transition to independence."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ],
        [
          "Rhodesia",
          "Rhodesia"
        ],
        [
          "emigrate",
          "emigrate"
        ],
        [
          "transition",
          "transition"
        ],
        [
          "independence",
          "independence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, historical) Of a white inhabitant of Rhodesia: to emigrate from the country during its transition to independence."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "take the gap"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gap it"
}