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Usage examples of hightail.

I gave an inward groan and hightailed it into the club, but not before one of the photographers managed to blind me with a flashbulb explosion from his Speed Graphic.

Sam and hightail it back to Havering, but suppose they want him as a witness or something?

Swinging open the car door, she grabbed her purse and hightailed it up the pavestone walkway toward the front door.

Richard Todd take it into his little head to go hightailing it into the bush.

He went to the washroom, rinsed off his face, breathed furiously, and then instinctively hightailed the rental car to LAX, catching the next flight up the coast, paying for full-fare Business Class, desperate to be aloft, the wheels no longer on the ground.

Mom hit the road shortly after she was born, hightailing it to parts unknown with a Schlitz Brewery driver rumored to be double digit hung, like the human equivalent of Mickey Cohen, Jr.

By the time Hamid-Jones reined to a skidding halt in front of the stalled line of flatbeds, the Equator Arabs were hightailing it in the distance.

He had only to unseat the man, take his lizard and SG, and hightail it for the nothings before a pursuit could be organized.

Forget their requests, and hightail it back to the prime time line.

He had hightailed it through San Bernardino Strait a few hours earlier, thanks to his decision not to enter the gulf.

So we raced to the dock, lifted a suction dredge onto the boat and hightailed it back to our buoy.

It hightailed it back to its barrel-wheeled vehicle and drove out of town.