hightail
Example Sentences
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Roughly midway through, Pynchon’s characters hightail it all the way to proto-fascist Budapest, where shadows more lethal than any Tommy gun begin to encroach.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025
Read on, study up, then hightail it to your nearest butcher.
From Salon • Apr. 2, 2022
“But if not, we’ll hightail it out. We’ll get out.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2021
“I feel hopeful but not necessarily optimistic,” said Kimmel, who planned to hightail it out of Washington after the show.
From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2017
This is my cue to hightail it to the other side of the world.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
