"leg it" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-leg it.ogg Forms: legs it [present, singular, third-person], legging it [participle, present], legged it [participle, past], legged it [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} leg it (third-person singular simple present legs it, present participle legging it, simple past and past participle legged it)
  1. (intransitive, British, slang) To run away, to flee. Tags: British, intransitive, slang Translations (To run away, to flee): lähteä karkuun (Finnish), pötkiä pakoon (Finnish), weglaufen (German), wegrennen (German), abhauen (German), dać nogę [perfective] (Polish), dawać nogę [imperfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-leg_it-en-verb-vdCTWCC4 Categories (other): British English, English terms with placeholder "it" Disambiguation of English terms with placeholder "it": 52 48 Disambiguation of 'To run away, to flee': 97 3
  2. (intransitive, British, slang) To hurry. Tags: British, intransitive, slang
    Sense id: en-leg_it-en-verb-eXznYI6i Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with placeholder "it", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of English terms with placeholder "it": 52 48 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 41 59 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 31 69 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 28 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 40 60
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: book it, beat it, hightail it, scarper, scram, skedaddle, vamoose

Inflected forms

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    {
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "form": "legged it",
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    },
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      "form": "legged it",
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        "(intransitive, British, slang) To run away, to flee."
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
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          "sense": "To run away, to flee",
          "word": "lähteä karkuun"
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "To run away, to flee",
          "word": "weglaufen"
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        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "To run away, to flee",
          "word": "wegrennen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "To run away, to flee",
          "word": "abhauen"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "To run away, to flee",
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          "sense": "To run away, to flee",
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        "(intransitive, British, slang) To hurry."
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      "word": "scarper"
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    {
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    },
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      "word": "skedaddle"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To run away, to flee",
      "word": "lähteä karkuun"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To run away, to flee",
      "word": "pötkiä pakoon"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To run away, to flee",
      "word": "weglaufen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To run away, to flee",
      "word": "wegrennen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To run away, to flee",
      "word": "abhauen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "To run away, to flee",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "dać nogę"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "To run away, to flee",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "dawać nogę"
    }
  ],
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