hightail it

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 awaybunkhead for the hillstake to the woodsescapefly the coopbreak away

   Broaderleave

   Narrowerfleeskedaddle

Questions about hightail it

What does hightail it mean?

hightail it means "flee; take to one's heels; cut and run".

What is another word for hightail it?

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 hightail it a common word?

hightail it 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.