hightail
/ˈhʌɪteɪl
/verb [no object, with adverbial of direction] informal, chiefly North American
Move or travel fast: they hightailed it to India...
- Well, he sure did look surprised at my honesty, but, thank goodness, he wasn't hightailing out that door.
- Then I hightailed across town to see ‘King of Stains’ at Bats, where Gibby played the most unlikeable character ever, and so well!
- ‘I'm very proud of where I'm from,’ he said in 1963, two years after he'd hightailed out.
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- photonegative
- photonegativity
- photoneutral
- photoneutron
- photonic
- photonic crystal
- photonics
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- photo-novelette
- photon rocket
- photon torpedo
- photonuclear
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- photo op
- photo opportunity
- photoorganotroph
- photoorganotrophic
- photoorganotrophy
- photo-oxidation
- photo-oxidative
- photo-oxidise