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high-tail

high-tail is the alternative spelling of hightail.

Meaning of hightail

Verb

hightail (third-person singular simple present hightails, present participle hightailing, simple past and past participle hightailed)

  1. (Canada, US, informal, transitive, usually) To move at full speed, especially in retreat.
    • He hightailed it toward town.
    Synonyms:
    skedaddle, move quickly

Forms of high-tail

third-person singular presenthigh-tails
present participlehigh-tailing
past participlehigh-tailed
pasthigh-tailed

Phrases with high-tail

Questions about high-tail

What is high-tail the alternative spelling of?
High-tail is the alternative spelling of hightail.

Words near high-tail in the dictionary

  1. high-sticks
  2. high-stomached
  3. high-strung
  4. high-support
  5. high-T
  6. high-tail
  7. high-tail it
  8. high-tailed
  9. high-tailed it
  10. high-tailing it
  11. high-tails it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: high-tail (page history and authors); hightail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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