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hightail verb to move very quickly US, 1919 Almost always used with “it”.- [S]uddenly his pet ferret rushed out and bit an elegant teacup queer on the ankle and everybody hightailed it out the door[.] — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 144, 1957
- So I got back in the car and hightailed it out of Cheyenne[.] — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 169, 1961
- Next he hightails to Angie’s to apologize for being pigheaded last night. — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 125, 1973
- We’ll be putting all this junk on a truck Saturday mornin’, hightailin’ it to the land of saddidy niggers. — Odie Hawkins, The Busting Out of an Ordinary Man, p. 144, 1985
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