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Verb: hightail it
  1. Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
    "If you see this man, hightail it!"
    - scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam [N. Amer], run away, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away, leg it [Brit]

Derived forms: hightails it, hightailed it, hightailing it

Type of: go away, go forth, leave

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