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hightail
[ hahy-teyl ]
verb (used without object)
- to go away or leave rapidly:
Last we saw of him, he was hightailing down the street.
hightail
/ ˈhaɪˌteɪl /
verb
- informal.intr to go or move in a great hurry Alsohightail it
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- hightail it, Informal. hurry; rush; scamper:
Hightail it down to the grocery store and buy some bread for lunch.
Example Sentences
Then, if the child is fever-free and symptoms are improving, according to the new guidance, they could pop on a mask and hightail it back to class — no testing needed.
You wonder why Paxton hasn’t hightailed it out of that house sooner.
The two hightail it out of there, but they ultimately get their pie and their happy ending, too.
A good dozen, however, saw what was happening in time to swerve their mounts and hightail it away.
After taking so much we'd spook like crazy animals and hightail for the woods over not making footprints.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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