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TURN TAIL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

Example:

The burglars escaped before the police showed up

Synonyms:

break away; bunk; escape; fly the coop; head for the hills; hightail it; lam; run; run away; scarper; scat; take to the woods; turn tail

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "turn tail" is one way to...):

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn tail"):

flee; fly; take flight (run away quickly)

skedaddle (run away, as if in a panic)

Sentence frames:

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