"hit the road" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-hit the road.ogg [Australia] Forms: hits the road [present, singular, third-person], hitting the road [participle, present], hit the road [participle, past], hit the road [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|hit<,,hit> the road}} hit the road (third-person singular simple present hits the road, present participle hitting the road, simple past and past participle hit the road)
  1. (idiomatic) To begin traveling in an automobile or other road vehicle. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Automotive Synonyms: hit the pavement Related terms: hit it Translations (to begin traveling in an automobile or other road vehicle): lähteä tien päälle (Finnish), lähteä ajamaan (Finnish), prendre la route (French), botar o pé na estrada (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-hit_the_road-en-verb-W9cJSgpy Disambiguation of Automotive: 55 45 Categories (other): English predicates Disambiguation of English predicates: 48 52 Disambiguation of 'to begin traveling in an automobile or other road vehicle': 99 1
  2. (idiomatic) To leave a place; to go away. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Automotive Synonyms: hit the trail Translations (to leave a place; to go away): yola düşmək (Azerbaijani), 上路 (shànglù) (Chinese Mandarin), häipyä (Finnish), mettre les voiles (French), sich auf den Weg machen (German), die Kurve kratzen (German), útnak indul (Hungarian), útra kel (Hungarian), szedi a sátorfáját (Hungarian), felkerekedik (Hungarian), lelécel [colloquial] (Hungarian), botar o pé na estrada (Portuguese), отпра́виться в доро́гу (otprávitʹsja v dorógu) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-hit_the_road-en-verb-2oDEzSqa Disambiguation of Automotive: 55 45 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 84 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 12 88 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 14 86 Disambiguation of English predicates: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 13 87 Disambiguation of 'to leave a place; to go away': 0 100

Inflected forms

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