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HIGHTAIL IT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hightail it mean?
• HIGHTAIL IT (verb)
The verb HIGHTAIL IT has 1 sense:
1. flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
Familiarity information: HIGHTAIL IT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
break away; bunk; escape; fly the coop; head for the hills; hightail it; lam; run; run away; scarper; scat; take to the woods; turn tail
Context example:
The burglars escaped before the police showed up
Hypernyms (to "hightail it" is one way to...):
go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hightail it"):
flee; fly; take flight (run away quickly)
skedaddle (run away, as if in a panic)
Sentence frames:
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Somebody ----s PP
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