hightail

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: verb

IDIOMS hightail it (informal, especially AmE) to leave somewhere very quickly: They ran out of the gates and hightailed it up the road.

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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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hightailEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus hightailEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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hightail