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Hightail vs Trudge - What's the difference?

hightail | trudge |

As verbs the difference between hightail and trudge

is that hightail is (usually|transitive) to move at full speed, especially in retreat while trudge is to walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.

As a noun trudge is

a tramp, ie a long and tiring walk.

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

    trudge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.

    • Verb

    (trudg)
  • To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • This famous archaeological site marks the farthest limit of human migration out of Africa in the middle Stone Age—the outer edge of our knowledge of the cosmos. I trudge to the caves in a squall.
  • To trudge along or over a route etc.

    • Derived terms

    * trudger

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