Usually means: Quickly leave or escape from.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word hightail:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. hightail: Merriam-Webster
  2. hightail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hightail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hightail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hightail: Vocabulary.com
  6. hightail: Wordnik
  7. hightail: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hightail: Wiktionary
  9. hightail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hightail: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hightail: Dictionary.com
  12. Hightail (horse), Hightail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. hightail: Rhymezone
  14. hightail: FreeDictionary.org
  15. hightail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Hightail: The Word Detective
  17. hightail: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. hightail: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hightail: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hightail: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hightail: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hightail)

▸ verb:  (informal, chiefly Canada, US, usually transitive) To move at full speed, especially in retreat.

Similar:
hightail it, highball, hotfoot it, take to one's heels, haul, skedaddle, do a runner, floor it, hump it, hotfoot, more...

Opposite:
dawdle, linger, meander, amble

Phrases:
hightail it, more...

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Similar:
hightail it, highball, hotfoot it, take to one's heels, haul, skedaddle, do a runner, floor it, hump it, hotfoot, more...

Opposite:
dawdle, linger, meander, amble

Phrases:
hightail it, more...



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