hightailed (it)

verb

past tense of hightail (it)
as in fled
to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening when a fight broke out, we hightailed it out of the bar

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hightailed (it)
  1. fled
  2. retreated
  3. bolted
  4. escaped
  5. ran
Verb
  • The suspects then fled toward Chelmsford Street, according to police.
    — Tammy Mutasa, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • Investors aware of this fled these precious-metals funds before the new year in a (successful) bid to avoid the losses in the chart above.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of fled
Verb
  • Since her stage days, Cassie has retreated out of the spotlight.
    — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026
  • Trump, too, recently talked about — and then retreated from — plans to charge tolls for safe passage.
    — Ron Kampeas, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2026
Definition of retreated
Verb
  • The fix gets dismissed as a database bolted onto a chatbot, when continual learning is a fundamentally unsolved machine learning problem.
    — Alexander Kardos-Nyheim, Fortune, 25 July 2026
  • But those same investments coincided with site performance drops, almost certainly because accessibility overlays and third-party add-ons were bolted onto existing infrastructure rather than built into it.
    — Brian Chidester, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of bolted
Verb
  • Rhodes escaped and shoved Punk shoulder-first into the steel ring steps.
    — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Flaco, who lived in the Central Park Zoo for 13 years, escaped when someone cut the wire mesh on his cage.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of escaped
Verb
  • The former Charlotte bus driver, who just unsuccessfully ran for a Mecklenburg County Commission at-large seat, faces charges of assaulting a federal agent while on federal property.
    — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2026
  • As token prices decline, demand for these supporting systems may grow because companies will run more models across more tasks.
    — Gerui Wang, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of ran
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“Hightailed (it).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hightailed%20%28it%29. Accessed 3 Aug. 2026.

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