Definition of "hightail" [hightail]

• To go as fast as possible, especially in fleeing: hightailed out of town. (verb-intransitive)
• Hightail it To hurry or flee. (idiom)

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• "If Mrs. Sanford has a a shred of dignity left and if she really cares most about her role i.e. role model to her sons, she'll read that besotted fool's self-absorbed drivel and hightail-it straight to her attorney's office!"
• "Adrenaline snaked through my limbs, urging me to bolt, to hightail it out of Rocquemore House and never look back."
• "When he then tried to get management actually to make a plan, even calling on Oscar to speak truth to this perceived power, no one went for it, and Michael was left only with the option to call them names and hightail it back to the comped limo."