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    TURN TAIL

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Flee; take to one's heels; cut and runplay

    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:

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