See hightail in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for hightail meaning in English (2.9kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "high",
"3": "tail",
"nocat": "1"
},
"expansion": "high + tail",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From high + tail; refers to the behavior of fleeing animals, such as deer, that raise their tail when running away.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "hightails",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "hightailing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "hightailed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "hightailed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "hightail (third-person singular simple present hightails, present participle hightailing, simple past and past participle hightailed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "American English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Canadian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "hightail it"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He hightailed it toward town.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I want you to hightail your butt out of there before they come back.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Dave Klein, The Game of Their Lives: The 1958 NFL Championship, page 217",
"text": "When I saw he had scored, I just hightailed out of there, because all those people started running down on the field and that's a lot more dangerous than playing.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move at full speed, especially in retreat."
],
"id": "en-hightail-en-verb-6dAKiNT3",
"links": [
[
"Canada",
"Canada"
],
[
"US",
"American English"
],
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"full",
"full"
],
[
"speed",
"speed"
],
[
"retreat",
"retreat"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal, chiefly Canada, US, usually transitive) To move at full speed, especially in retreat."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "skedaddle"
},
{
"word": "move quickly"
}
],
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US",
"informal",
"transitive",
"usually"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move at full speed, especially in retreat",
"word": "abrauschen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move at full speed, especially in retreat",
"word": "flüchten"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhaɪ.teɪl/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-hightail.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/37/En-us-hightail.ogg/En-us-hightail.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/En-us-hightail.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-hightail.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/En-au-hightail.ogg/En-au-hightail.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/En-au-hightail.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "hightail"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "hightail it"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "high",
"3": "tail",
"nocat": "1"
},
"expansion": "high + tail",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From high + tail; refers to the behavior of fleeing animals, such as deer, that raise their tail when running away.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "hightails",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "hightailing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "hightailed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "hightailed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "hightail (third-person singular simple present hightails, present participle hightailing, simple past and past participle hightailed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"Canadian English",
"English 2-syllable words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English informal terms",
"English lemmas",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs",
"English verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He hightailed it toward town.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I want you to hightail your butt out of there before they come back.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Dave Klein, The Game of Their Lives: The 1958 NFL Championship, page 217",
"text": "When I saw he had scored, I just hightailed out of there, because all those people started running down on the field and that's a lot more dangerous than playing.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move at full speed, especially in retreat."
],
"links": [
[
"Canada",
"Canada"
],
[
"US",
"American English"
],
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"full",
"full"
],
[
"speed",
"speed"
],
[
"retreat",
"retreat"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal, chiefly Canada, US, usually transitive) To move at full speed, especially in retreat."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "skedaddle"
},
{
"word": "move quickly"
}
],
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US",
"informal",
"transitive",
"usually"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhaɪ.teɪl/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-hightail.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/37/En-us-hightail.ogg/En-us-hightail.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/En-us-hightail.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-hightail.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/En-au-hightail.ogg/En-au-hightail.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/En-au-hightail.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move at full speed, especially in retreat",
"word": "abrauschen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move at full speed, especially in retreat",
"word": "flüchten"
}
],
"word": "hightail"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.