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Take to one's heels
Answer for the clue "Take to one's heels ", 9 letters:
skedaddle
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skedaddle \Ske*dad"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skedaddled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Skedaddling .] [Of uncertain etymology.] To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away. [Slang, U. S.]
WordNet
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v. run away, as if in a panic
Usage examples of skedaddle.
He skedaddled from the rec area, and the boarding party wants him back.
Best to turn around and skedaddle like the cowardly chickenshit I was.
The waitress recognized him from something she'd seen on the news, called the cops, and then skedaddled out the backdoor with two of her regulars.
I just skedaddled out my apartment door when I heard him prowl the porch outside my view window, I just dropped and jumped.
He skedaddled from the rec area, and the boarding party wants him back.
Why, the rest of the troops over in West Tennessee used to call our Brigade 'Leggett's Cavalry,' for they always had us chasing Old Forrest, and we kept him skedaddling, too, pretty lively.
I still can see Eula Lemoy, her robe hitched up to her waist, skedaddling across the gravel bar.
So just turning off the temporooter and skedaddling is out of the question.
It's a wingless bird so big and fierce even one of Podarge's pets would skedaddle away from it.