English
Verb
Sense: to move at full speed in retreat; to escape
Synonyms
- absquatulate (slang)
- amscray
- beat a retreat
- beat it
- beat feet (idiomatic)
- blow this popsicle stand (US, idiomatic, humorous)
- bolt
- book it
- dine and dash (US, idiomatic, slang)
- do a bunk (UK, idiomatic, slang)
- do a flit (UK, idiomatic, slang)
- do a moonlight flit (UK, idiomatic, slang)
- do a runner (UK, idiomatic, slang)
- flee
- fly the coop (idiomatic)
- jump (archaic, slang)
- gas and dash (US, idiomatic, slang)
- get lost
- get out
- gnash (Geordie)
- head for the hills (idiomatic)
- hightail
- hightail it
- hit the road (idiomatic)
- kick rocks
- leg it
- make a break for it (idiomatic)
- make a run for it (idiomatic)
- make tracks
- namous (obsolete, thieves' cant)
- peg it
- rabbit (US)
- run a mile (UK, idiomatic)
- run away
- run for the hills (idiomatic)
- run off
- scamper
- scat
- scarper
- shemozzle
- scram
- skedaddle
- smash and dash (US, idiomatic, slang)
- take a powder
- take flight (idiomatic)
- take off
- take to one's heels (idiomatic)
- take to the hills (idiomatic)
- tear off
- turn tail (idiomatic)
- vamoose
Hypernyms
See also
Further reading
- “623. avoidance” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “flee” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.