English

Alternative forms

• high-tail it

Verb

hightail it ‎(third-person singular simple present hightails it, present participle hightailing it, simple past and past participle hightailed it)

1. (idiomatic) To hurry or run; often, to flee.

   He started to hightail it out of there, but I stopped him at the door.

   The cat hightailed it out of the bushes.