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Hightail vs Jog - What's the difference?

hightail | jog |

As verbs the difference between hightail and jog

is that hightail is (usually|transitive) to move at full speed, especially in retreat while jog is to push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.

As a noun jog is

a form of exercise, slower than a run; an energetic trot.

hightail

English

Verb

(en-verb); usually, with it ; see hightail it.
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (move quickly) skedaddle

    jog

    English

    (wikipedia jog)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A form of exercise, slower than a run; an energetic trot.

    • Verb

    (jogg)
  • To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
    • jog one's elbow
  • * John Donne
    • Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see / Yonder well-favoured youth?
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid / Fast by my side.
  • To shake, stir or rouse.
    • I tried desperately to jog my memory.
  • (exercise) To move in an energetic trot.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Jog' on, ' jog on, the footpath way.
  • * Milton
    • So hung his destiny, never to rot, / While he might still jog on and keep his trot.
  • * Robert Browning
    • The good old ways our sires jogged safely over.
  • To cause to move at an energetic trot.
    • to jog a horse
  • To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.

    • Related terms

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