peel away/off
— phrasal verb with peel uk/piːl/us/piːl/verb
When vehicles, people, or animals peel away/off, they separate from the group or structure they were part of and move away in a different direction:
One motorbike peeled away from the formation and circled round behind the rest.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Departing
- abandon
- absquatulate
- backward
- be ready to roll idiom
- bog
- desertion
- drive
- go down
- hit
- parting
- piss
- push off
- ready
- road
- run
- run away
- sally
- sally forth idiom
- walk out
- without (so much as) a backward glance idiom
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