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hightail (it) Informal 
v. move as fast as possible, usually in departing or retreating from a place.
- 1928 A glimpse through my binoculars of a string of red-brown bodies high-tailing it through the bush was all that could be seen of the disembarkation.
- 1953 "I want to hightail. I'm not staying where I'm treated like dirt."
- 1958 . . . the surviving pilots jettisoned their bombs on a Sunderland housing development and hightailed back to Norway.
- 1960 Many of them, as soon as they can scrape together their return fare, hightail it back to their native lands where . . . breadlines for the jobless are unknown and unimaginable. . . .
- 1928 A glimpse through my binoculars of a string of red-brown bodies high-tailing it through the bush was all that could be seen of the disembarkation.