英:[ˈhaɪteɪl]
美:['haɪteɪl]
英:[ˈhaɪteɪl]
美:['haɪteɪl]
high·tail
haI teIl
第三人称单数:hightails
现在分词:hightailing
过去式:hightailed
过去分词:hightailed
Verb
1. leave as fast as possible;
"We hightailed it when we saw the police walking in"
快赶飞离
The first known use of hightail was in 1908
1 That was enough to convince me to hightail it back to the...
2 Additionally, this totalitarian system produces only poverty and hunger, and these poor, hungry people hightail it to the United States.
3 “You mean the psycho-mutts? Probably hightailed it all the way back to Berlin,” said Curly.
4 Barry and Clyde had jumped on a streetcar and hightailed it to Pier 39, where they could get lost in the crowds.
5 According to Postal Service data crunched by the real estate firm CBRE, those who picked up stakes during the pandemic were less likely to hightail to the hinterlands than to move to neighboring, less-dense cities, slightly farther from the downtown core.
6 Eventually, Berkoff couldn’t stand it any longer and, in a fury hightailed it to LAX in a rental car that bore the dents of his anger, leaving the production without a Goldberg.
7 The boy took a long look at her face and hightailed it back to the kitchen.
8 “He hightailed it out of there, but didn’t manage to exit unseen. There was a man there, a minor-league ballplayer named Jacob Carlyle. He was the one who came forward as the witness.”
9 “He licks that pan clean and then hightails it outta there so fast I hardly get so much as a glimpse of him.”
10 “So we catch the tram, make our way to this Atrium, snag the Story Box, and hightail it out of there. Sounds easy enough.”
11 Chris, not being a man of steel, hightails it out of there taking the last helicopter out of the Badlands and leaving the women to Mother Nature.
12 “We cannot just hightail it out of here and leave everyone to that man’s nonexistent mercy, Jane!”
13 And then there’s the Setrakian voiceover narration at the end, which ridiculously mentions “a small world,” while the Scooby gang hightails it and tries to mentally regroup against the fiery New York skyline.
14 I was going to force myself to get in an hour of chemistry, but that wasn’t what was making me hightail it out of that party.
15 They rolled on the floor and tumbled down from the piles in the corners, hightailing it to where Uncle Cotton lay with his eyes closed, a heavy sigh escaping his lips.
16 I think about hightailing it into the woods, but I’m frozen.
17 I tell you, it was a revelation: I wanted to hightail it to the nearest Good Vibrations and buy my very own speculum — and one for each of my ladyparts-having friends.
18 In most cases, drivers might hightail it out of there.
19 But before I had the wherewithal to hightail it out of there, Jimbo grabbed my arm and shouted, “Zaree—tequila now!”
20 To everyone’s shock, he did not jump right back into his limo and hightail it back to New York.