hightail
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 8
Definition of hightail
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(Canada, US, informal, transitive, usually)To move at full speed, especially in retreat.
“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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From high + tail; refers to the behavior of fleeing animals, such as deer, that raise their tail when running away.
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