Definitions
retreat at full speed
Word origin
From high + tail; refers to the behavior of fleeing animals, such as deer, that raise their tail when running away.
Used in a sentence
“He hightailed it toward town.”
“I want you to hightail your butt out of there before they come back.”
“When I saw he had scored, I just hightailed out of there, because all those people started running down on the field and that's a lot more dangerous than playing.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Leave in a hurry”8 letters
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