hightail, high-tail
(verb) retreat at full speed; “The actress high-tailed to her villa when reporters began to follow her to the restaurant”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hightail (third-person singular simple present hightails, present participle hightailing, simple past and past participle hightailed); usually with it; see hightail it.
(usually, transitive) To move at full speed, especially in retreat.
• (move quickly): skedaddle
Source: Wiktionary
27 February 2025
(verb) reach the summit (of a mountain); “They breasted the mountain”; “Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
