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third-person singular simple present hightails, present participle hightailing, simple past and past participle hightailed
(informal, chiefly Canada, US, usually transitive) To move at full speed, especially in retreat. quotations examples
When I saw he had scored, I just hightailed out of there, because all those people started running down on the field and that's a lot more dangerous than playing.
2008, Dave Klein, The Game of Their Lives: The 1958 NFL Championship, page 217