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Get away from electronic gadget? Well, once! (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

egad

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'get away from electronic gadget? well once' is the definition.
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'get away from electronic gadget?' is the wordplay.
'away from' is a deletion indicator.
'electronic' becomes 'e' (as in e-mail or e-books).
'e'+'gadget'='egadget'
'egadget' with 'get' removed is 'EGAD'.

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(Other definitions for egad that I've seen before include "My word once" , "Christ" , "Archaic exclamation of surprise" , "Old exclamation; aged (anagram)" , "Old oath" .)

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