Decamp vs Hightail - What's the difference?
decamp | hightail |
To break up camp and move on.
To disappear suddenly and secretly.
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(usually) To move at full speed, especially in retreat.
:He hightailed it toward town.
:I want you to hightail your butt out of there before they come back.
:As soon as she arrived, I hightailed out of there.
As verbs the difference between decamp and hightail
is that decamp is to break up camp and move on while hightail is (usually|transitive) to move at full speed, especially in retreat.decamp
English
Verb
(en verb)- Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.