"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.",
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "gap it",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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"
        },
        {
          "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.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "gap it",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "chicken run"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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"
        },
        {
          "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"
}