1. Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
   "If you see this man, hightail it!";
   - scat [informal], run, scarper [Brit, informal], turn tail [informal], lam [N. Amer, informal], run away, bunk [informal], head for the hills [informal], take to the woods [informal], escape, fly the coop [informal], break away, leg it [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: hightailing it, hightailed it, hightails it

Type of: go away, go forth, leave, off [informal]