To withdraw hastily, take oneself off, go away. Also with away. Const. from, out of. Also, To swerve from (a commandment); to keep free from (a…

To move rapidly away (from somewhere). intransitive. To retire or retreat rapidly (from a place, person, etc.); to flee, take to flight; to…

intransitive. To depart; to make off. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To hurry away.

To hasten, hurry, move lightly and rapidly; to make off, abscond. Also with out and as to skip it. Now colloquial.

intransitive. To go or advance quickly; to go at full speed; to decamp. Also with away, off, etc. Cf. stretch, v. 10 (The verb is, in this sense, now…

intransitive. To go hastily, fling away. Of wind: To rise up. Obsolete.

intransitive. = run, v. 1, 7, 8.

intransitive. To make off, go, escape, etc.

colloquial. To go away, make off. Cf. sense 3c. Also to step it.

to flee (one's) touch: to make off, escape; (also) to break faith, break a promise (cf. phrases 1c phrases 1d(a)). Obsolete.

intransitive. To run hastily (away); to flee, make off; = scour, v.1 1c.

intransitive. slang. To run or make off; to go forth. Also without following adverb. Obsolete.

intransitive. To depart, go away; (also) spec. to go away suddenly or hastily, run away; = to make off at phrasal verbs 1.

intransitive. To run, run away. Now only slang and dialect (see English Dial. Dict.).

intransitive. To run away hastily, to scuttle. ‘A low word’ (Johnson, 1755).

(Without adverb.) To depart in haste, run away, decamp. (Chiefly colloquial or slang.) Obsolete.

to take the start: (a) to depart, set off, decamp; (b) to take the lead (= to get the start at phrases 3). Obsolete.

intransitive. To depart, esp. suddenly or abruptly.

intransitive. To start away with abruptness and force; to go off abruptly; to escape by breaking from restraint. Also figurative.

intransitive. To depart or leave a place, esp. suddenly or hastily; to hasten or run away; to decamp, bolt.

to fly off: literal to start away; ‘to revolt’ (Johnson); figurative to take another course; to break away (from an agreement or engagement).

intransitive. To run with quick, hurried steps. Chiefly with away, off.

intransitive. To move quickly; to hurry away, depart abruptly (dialect); to bustle about (U.S.).

intransitive. To run away, decamp, ‘bolt’. Obsolete.

whistle off: to go off, go away (suddenly or lightly). colloquial ? Obsolete.

intransitive. To burst away with a rush, move off abruptly, be gone, decamp, make off.

to buy a brush: = brush, v.1 3 (slang.)

figurative. To ‘take flight’, take one's departure, make off, flee.

To go away promptly or suddenly; to make off at once, take oneself off: often said of criminals and persons eluding the officers of the law.

to take (†a) French leave: to depart unnoticed or without permission; (also spec. in military contexts) to escape or take flight; to desert, to…

intransitive. slang (English regional in later use.) To move away rapidly; to decamp; (also) †to die (obsolete). Also with off.

intransitive. To leave in a hurry.

to hop the twig: to depart, go off, or be dismissed suddenly; (also simply to hop, to hop off) to die. to hop the wag: to play truant. slang.

intransitive. To depart about one's business; to go away. Frequently in imperative, esp. in the phrase run along (with you)! (often used to…

slang or colloquial. To go suddenly and swiftly, to dart; to go away hurriedly. Often with adverbs.

intransitive. To depart quickly or suddenly; to run away; to go off. Cf. sense 60b.

intransitive. To go fast; to run away, make off. Chiefly Australian in later use.

to cut (also make, take) one's lucky: to get away, escape; to decamp.

Phrases. in one's tracks, on the spot where one is at the moment; instantly, immediately. on the right track, having the right idea; heading in the…

intransitive and transitive = absquatulate, v.

intransitive. Originally: to go away quickly or promptly; to make haste (now rare). Later usually: to walk in a leisurely or aimless manner; to…

intransitive. To abscond, make off. Also occasionally transitive with it.

intransitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). To leave in haste, make off, ‘scram’. Frequently with for. See also to put off 8b at…

with it.

intransitive. To depart, make off, decamp, disappear.

intransitive. Chiefly U.S. To depart, leave, esp. in haste; to make off; to set out for. Now rare.

slang or colloquial (intransitive) To run away, make off, ‘be off’. Also to cut it. (See also to cut and run at sense 41.) Originally with away, off.

slang. ‘To go on foot’ (Slang Dict. 1859); also stump it (in quot. 1841 to be off, decamp).

figurative. intransitive. To depart in haste, to make off with all speed. Frequently const. for. U.S. colloquial.

intransitive. To depart hastily, run away; to escape, make one's get-away.

transitive. To decamp or disappear from; to quit hurriedly. Frequently in to vamoose the ranch. U.S.

intransitive. To move with a sudden turn or twist. Now slang or dialect. To make off. Also to hook it and (New Zealand) to hook off.

To hasten away, as after being ‘shooed at’.

colloquial. To make off. Originally U.S.

to cut and run (Nautical): see quot. 1794; (slang or colloquial) to make off promptly, hurry off. Also as attributive.phr.

intransitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S. regional). Frequently in form git. Without… To be off, ‘clear out’. Also: to make speed.

In general use: To go away, leave, or depart hurriedly; to run away, ‘clear out’.

To dart off or away, make off with himself, take flight, escape; to rush suddenly off or away. gen. of people or animals. spec. of a rabbit, fox…

transitive. To discontinue (an action). Chiefly in imperative in cheese it: stop it, leave off, run away; (formerly also) be silent.

In slang phrase to do a bunk: to make an escape; to depart hurriedly.

In figurative or allusive uses. to wake snakes, (a) (see quot. 1872); (b) to rouse oneself, to look lively; (c) see wake, v. 8c; to have snakes in…

To be off. Also with about.

intransitive. To escape, decamp; to hurry away. Also transitive with it.

U.S. regional (chiefly western). to pull one's freight: to depart, esp. quickly; to get going. Now rare.

(intransitive) to bustle off.

to get the (also to) hell out (of): to make a hasty retreat, esp. in order to avoid or preclude trouble.

Australian slang. = slope, v.2 1. Also const. off.

intransitive. English regional. To clear off, depart swiftly. Also in imperative: ‘get lost!’, ‘scram!’.

to fly the coop: to escape or elope; to leave suddenly; to fly the track: to turn from the usual or expected course. U.S. colloquial.

intransitive. To move suddenly and swiftly; to dart; to depart hurriedly. Also of a price, cost, etc.: to rise rapidly or to an exorbitant degree.

intransitive. To depart quickly or suddenly; to make off.

to light a shuck: to leave in a hurry, to hurry away.

to beat it: to go away, to ‘clear out’. Originally U.S.

intransitive. To depart in a hurry; to bustle or hurry off.

U.S. to take a run-out powder (colloquial): to leave; to flee, abscond; cf. powder, n.1 phrases 3.

To go away, to leave hurriedly. slang (originally U.S.).

slang. To go (quickly). to buzz off: to go off or away quickly. Also to buzz in: to come in (quickly), to enter.

to hop it: to be off, go away quickly.

colloquial. To depart speedily.

intransitive. To fly off; to go, make one's way, move (like a beetle); frequently with off, away, etc.

intransitive. To depart quickly. Frequently imperative.

intransitive. To depart quickly, to scram. Chiefly in imperative.

intransitive. Originally U.S. To move or go, esp. in a hurry; to escape. Frequently with down, on, out. Cf. bug, v.3 1. Also figurative.

intransitive. To go away, leave, or depart hurriedly. Frequently imperative.

intransitive. Frequently with out. To run away, flee; to retreat hurriedly.

The action of flitting. A removal; spec. do a flit, to decamp.

in to do a scarper, to run away, ‘do a bunk’.

Slang phrases: to hit, splitor take the breeze: to depart; to get (have)or put the breeze up: to get or put the wind up (see wind, n.1 10b).

to do a runner: to escape by running away, to abscond; (hence) to depart hastily or furtively, esp. in order to avoid something or someone.

U.S. colloquial (originally and chiefly in African-American usage). to be (also get, go) ghost: to leave a place or situation, esp. suddenly or…