hightail
verb/ˈhaɪteɪl/
/ˈhaɪteɪl/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they hightail | /ˈhaɪteɪl/ /ˈhaɪteɪl/ |
| he / she / it hightails | /ˈhaɪteɪlz/ /ˈhaɪteɪlz/ |
| past simple hightailed | /ˈhaɪteɪld/ /ˈhaɪteɪld/ |
| past participle hightailed | /ˈhaɪteɪld/ /ˈhaɪteɪld/ |
| -ing form hightailing | /ˈhaɪteɪlɪŋ/ /ˈhaɪteɪlɪŋ/ |
Idioms
See hightail in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryhightail it
- (informal, especially North American English) to leave somewhere very quickly
- They ran out of the gates and hightailed it up the road.
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