head for the hills

1. 1.

   flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

   “If you see this man, run!”

   “The burglars escaped before the police showed up”

   Synonymsscatrunscarperturn taillamrun awayhightail itbunktake to the woodsescapefly the coopbreak away

   Broaderleave

   Narrowerfleeskedaddle

Questions about head for the hills

What does head for the hills mean?

head for the hills means "flee; take to one's heels; cut and run".

What is another word for head for the hills?

Close synonyms include scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is head for the hills a common word?

head for the hills is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.