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ˈhightail, ˈhigh-tail, v. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
[In allusion to the erect tails of animals in flight.]
intr. To run (quickly) away, to move quickly. Freq. const. it.
1925Amer. Speech I. 149/2 ‘I high-tailed out of there.’..‘High-tail’ comes straight from the plains where a mustang, when startled, erects his tail in a sudden, quick gesture and runs like the wind. So to make a sudden departure is to ‘high-tail’. 1928L. R. Freeman Nearing North 157 A string of red-brown bodies hightailing it through the bush. 1930Detective Fiction Weekly 19 Apr. 566/2 We high-tailed it for the hideout. 1953M. Lowry Let. Nov. (1967) 349, I hightailed it thither anyhow, fire-extinguisher in hand. 1958P. de Vries Mackerel Plaza v. 62, I was only always high-tailing it after everything in skirts, that's all. 1959C. Williams Man in Motion iii. 29, I..high-tailed it in the other direction, and ducked into an alley. 1962Listener 22 Mar. 524/2 The two of them high-tailed it for Oldham. 1971Nat. Geographic May 721/2 Suddenly a Chinese goose, honking belligerently, high⁓tailed straight for me. 1973Caribbean Contact Jan. 2/3 They get the point. Pronto. And high-tail it back home! |