| 单词 | hightail |
| 释义 | hightail (once / 131326 pages) v To hightail is to leave or move very quickly. Your plan might be to hightail to New York City as soon as you graduate from high school. Hightail is an useful, informal verb that means "get out fast" or "make a beeline for" or "cut and run." Bank robbers might jump in their getaway car and hightail it to their hideout, and a shivering snowshoer will hightail it to a warm fireplace after hours out in the snow. Hightail is 1890s U.S. cattle ranch slang, from the way a running cow or bull raises its tail. WORD FAMILYhightail: hightailed, hightailing, hightails USAGE EXAMPLESGarlinghouse, on the other hand, was previously the CEO of Hightail, a cloud service company that lets users send, receive, digitally sign and synchronize files. Reuters(Nov 01, 2016) “Well, she sure got up and hightailed it when I come in and bulldozed poor Gilly clean through the carpet.” Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins(1978) Somoza hightailed it when his downfall was imminent, robbed the national treasury and fled to Miami, leaving Nicaragua deeply in debt. US News(Sep 20, 2016) v leave as fast as possible We hightailed it when we saw the police walking in Hyper go away, go forth, leave go away from a place |
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