hightail
verbNAmE//ˈhaɪteɪl//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they hightail he / she / it hightails
past simple hightailed
-ing form hightailing
to leave somewhere very quickly They ran out of the gates and hightailed it up the road.
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