[
UK
/hˈaɪteɪl/
]
VERB
-
retreat at full speed
The actress high-tailed to her villa when reporters began to follow her to the restaurant
How To Use hightail In A Sentence
- After directing the film, he hightailed it out to Bali, only to return again to work as a script doctor.
- Then my endorphin rush wore off and I hightailed it home, groaning in pain.
- Then, with sunnies perched on my head and a towel tucked under my arm, I walked to the front door, slipped my thongs on and hightailed it out of there.
- She was a little taken aback by that but hightailed it over there, anyway. The Priest
- Right after the 11 p.m. news window, with Tookie still alive, the camera crews hightailed it out of there.
- They had managed to resolve the problem without too much of a delay and he had hightailed it out of there. Recipe for Love
- We nosed and drifted until it was time to hightail back to Hortobágy village for the bull market.
- The short answer is to hightail it out of the capital to where large and detached homes are more readily available.
- My favorite funny part was when Brenda and her team were hightailing out of the garage and she yelled, “And somebody call Babs!” 'The Closer' recap: A breathtaking season finale! | EW.com
- But his privacy was disturbed by the arrival of Hightail looking impressively fat.
