as in to flee
to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening
when a fight broke out, we hightailed it out of the bar
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Routh allegedly fled the scene but was later arrested by a local sheriff's office on a nearby interstate.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
23 Sep. 2025 -
The suspects fled the scene in multiple vehicles.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
23 Sep. 2025
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Mike Bailey delivered a superkick to Dax Harwood, and Kevin Knight hit Cash Wheeler with a dropkick, sending FTR and Stokely retreating and ending the chaotic confrontation.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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When the sun sets, retreat to the hot tub.—
Erika Owen,
Architectural Digest,
23 Sep. 2025
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Also, there is no Santa, but Alexia’s gay Jonny is there to trash-talk Todd once more before flying home to Spain.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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The weapon can also fly more than 45 miles to strike mobile targets, reducing the amount of time that aircrews spend in harm’s way.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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One option, however, is a quick-access safe that can be bolted down.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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Besides, setting it off while bolted to a fighter jet would have been messy, to say the least.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 Sep. 2025
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Kuina is teaching karate at her father’s dojo, Heiya is an influencer, Aguni is running the Hatter’s hat shop, and Niragi is trying to be better for his kid.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
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Developed by the late Silvio Horta and based on the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea, Ugly Betty premiered on ABC on September 28, 2006, and ran for four seasons until 2010.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2025
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Previously, the story followed Zagreus, the painfully cool son of Hades who spent his days making a break for the surface world to escape the overbearing grip of his father.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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Despite sustaining some minor injuries — Ethan sustained several cuts, scrapes and bruises while Brandon sustained a small burn on his forehead and scarring on his hands — the pair escaped relatively unscathed, physically.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
Verb
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There's an option of them running away together.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Sep. 2025
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The victim, 19-year-old Citlaly Morales Martinez was thrown clear of the crash and killed while the driver allegedly ran away and called a friend for a ride out of there.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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Now Daphne, unhappily affianced, has run off with one Hop Wingdale, a clarinet player for a band called the Klezmopolitans, and her mother and her would-be future husband have engaged Unamalgamated Ops to bring her home.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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The Aztecs took an early lead in Pullman two weeks ago before Washington State ran off 29 straight points, including 16 in less than five minutes late in the first half to put the game away.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Hightail (it).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hightail%20%28it%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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