high-tail

1. 1.

   retreat at full speed

   “The actress high-tailed to her villa when reporters began to follow her to the restaurant”

   Synonymshightail

   Broaderflee

Questions about high-tail

What does high-tail mean?

high-tail means "retreat at full speed".

How many syllables are in high-tail?

high-tail has 2 syllables: high--tail. The stress falls on "tail".

What is another word for high-tail?

Close synonyms include hightail. 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 high-tail a common word?

high-tail 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.