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TURN TAIL
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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:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
