Hightails

Caroline hightails it out of the garage and Elena goes after her. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The thief throws his flashlight at the man and hightails it, getting his bicycle from hiding and fleeing the scene. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Eventually, hightails it to Europe -- following in James Baldwin's and Josephine Baker's footsteps -- to explore the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Elizabeth hightails it into the French countryside, but encounters more people with the same pus-filled sores that try to attack her and anyone else who remains unaffected. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Maybe I forget my turn signal, because someone honks, and maybe I swerve just a little, because the spongy yellow upright rectangle hightails it into the restaurant bushes. ❋ Deb Caletti (2009)

Hopefully, he hightails it out of here after he tastes a couple of zingers. ❋ Stephen Frey (2009)

The day after her marriage, with the consent of her husband, Emily hightails it over to her sister Caroline's house, for a reconciliation. ❋ Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (2009)

After we hang up I get in touch with my Roomie who is closer than the mister and she hightails it over to cab me to my birthplace. ❋ Jek-a-go-go (2009)

With the advent of online travel agencies like Expedia and Priceline, whenever there's a dip in the hospitality economy, the traveling world (a shrinking marketplace since travel is a discretionary expenditure in a recession) hightails it to their laptop to see which hotel chain will offer the closest thing to free. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The idea would be the same: brilliant Jewish boy flees his mother and hightails it for India or China or Japan. ❋ Unknown (2008)

No wonder George Bush hightails it for Myrtle Beach whenever he needs people to clap in the background. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At first this regular guy with the regular job hightails it away from the vixen, as he suspects she wants to murder her husband for the insurance. ❋ Jacqueline T Lynch (2008)

After a little research she hightails it to the residence of the Yakuza boss and his son in order to get some payback. ❋ Unknown (2008)

▪ When [se] heard [the night] watchman, she [hightail it out of there] as quick as she could. ❋ Cuervaverdinegra (2012)

Once [I saw] [the cops], I hightailed it [out of there]. ❋ Whiskey Zulu (2003)

The example is from the activity that the term applies. This is referring to deer, (antelope, [caribou], et. al.). Example #1: "When I fired rifle at the large buck and missed the buck hightailed it." (When this animal is frightened it will turn raise its tail, drop all possible excess weight (release excrement) and run in the opposite direction until exhausted.) Example #2: When I came out of the [Butthole Surfer's] show in [Smyrna] Florida and I saw a parking lot full of skinheads with chains and pistols, cowboy-rednecks with ax handles and shotguns and cops with batons and teargas, Marc and Tyler my little purple haired California punk-rock-ass, hightailed it all the way back to Orlando. ❋ CMCarlson (2008)

I saw a [stray cat] [hightail] out of [my yard] once it saw my dog. ❋ JoeyBomm (2021)

"her dad [walked in] when she was [suckin] [my dick], i had to hightail it out of there" ❋ Neckropimp 5000 (2014)