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Hightail

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1909, OED Evaluation: Colloquial. Originally U.S.

To run (quickly) away; to move or leave quickly.

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To move in. Now I think there was kind-of like a- I don't where- we- it was kind-of like a little revolution over in Quebec at the time. And those families for some reason or another, they had to hightail here and this is where they ended up.
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