What's the difference between hightail and skedaddle?

Hightail


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The G8 commitment to these plans lasts as long as it takes the motorcade to hightail it back to the airport.
  • (2) Chris Bosh, who was expected to hightail it to the Houston Rockets should James leave, has instead committed a five-year, $118m max contract.
  • (3) 6.35pm BST Zal Bilimoria (@zalzally) Ok, just 28 minutes into the keynote, and Apple is going after Dropbox, Google Drive, HighTail, and Docusign.
  • (4) The mice were rendered infertile by one of the following gene mutations: Ames dwarf, dwarf, flipper-arm, hightail, hypothyroid, little, pygmy, stubby.
  • (5) The second group of gene mutations (hightail, hypothyroid, little, stubby) do not specifically depress either spermatogenesis or testosterone secretion.

Skedaddle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 6.44pm BST 85 min: Musa, who has been very bright since coming on, skips and skedaddles past a couple of City players (including, inevitably, Garcia) and heads into the box.
  • (2) Less than 60 seconds later, Spurs were given a second penalty after Aaron Lennon skedaddled into the box before tumbling under a challenge by Sam Ricketts.
  • (3) So we'll have to get a sense of winners and losers by skedaddling quickly around the party HQs.
  • (4) Everyone forgets this eye-blistering get-up now, mainly because Stokoe later entertained the country by skedaddling across the Wembley turf in trenchcoat and trilby.
  • (5) 9.18pm GMT 76 min: Robben skedaddles towards the Arsenal area and sends in a low rasper that Fabianski collects.
  • (6) The Helen Clark led Labour party in 2002 was, like National in 2014, “in striking distance of getting more than half the seats in parliament”, says Nigel Roberts, a political scientist and adjunct professor at Victoria University of Wellington, but their hopes of ruling alone were “completely skedaddled” after the release of a damaging book by Nicky Hagar – who also wrote Dirty Politics, which derailed the first part of the current campaign.
  • (7) 9.59pm BST 72 min: Bale skedaddles down the left and into the box.
  • (8) I realised Dad was right about a lot of other things too - as was Mom - and when I sat down to write about my life, I found that amid the tales of stolen grocery money and doing the skedaddle in the middle of the night to outrun the bill collectors were stories of optimism, perseverance and familial love that I had all but forgotten.
  • (9) Experienced cycling-tour company Skedaddle runs plenty of mountain bike holidays, many in the UK.
  • (10) Jonathan Leko, a 17-year-old with thrilling dribbling skills, seized on a slack ball by Joe Allen before skedaddling past three defenders and flipping a clever pass through to Rondón.
  • (11) Charlie’s father, Sydney’s step-father, skedaddled when he was two, and died through alcoholism.
  • (12) In the 14th minute the dazzling Belgian showcased his rare skills by skedaddling past three defenders in the penalty area before pulling the ball back for Ivanovic to tuck into the net from close range.
  • (13) 8.26pm BST 40 min: Blaszczykowsky skedaddles down the right and fires in a low cross.

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