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- Dictionaryhightail/ˈhʌɪteɪl/
verb
- 1. move or travel fast: informal North American "they hightailed it to India"
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to leave or go somewhere in a great hurry: As soon as I heard he was coming I hightailed it out of there. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Moving quickly. agility. beetle. belt. bob up. bowl down/along something phrasal verb. cannonball. gallop. leg. make good time idiom. make haste idiom. make off phrasal verb. outrun. outrush. outsail
The meaning of HIGHTAIL is to move at full speed or rapidly often in making a retreat —usually used with it. How to use hightail in a sentence.
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.
verb. mainly US informal us / ˈhaɪ.teɪl / uk / ˈhaɪ.teɪl / hightail it. Add to word list. to leave or go somewhere in a great hurry: As soon as I heard he was coming I hightailed it out of there. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Moving quickly. agility. beetle. bob up. bowl down/along something. cannonball. gallop. gun. leg.
Hightail definition: to go away or leave rapidly. See examples of HIGHTAIL used in a sentence.
to go or move in a great hurry. Also: hightail it. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. hightail in American English. (ˈhaiˌteil) intransitive verb informal. 1. to go away or leave rapidly. Last we saw of him, he was hightailing down the street. 2. See hightail it.
Define hightail. hightail synonyms, hightail pronunciation, hightail translation, English dictionary definition of hightail. Slang intr.v. high·tailed , high·tail·ing , high·tails To go as fast as possible, especially in fleeing: hightailed out of town.
