Head-for-the-hills synonyms

(Colloquial) To leave quickly (often used in the imperative).

To cause to enter; to thrust.

(UK, slang) To run away; to flee; to escape.

(Idiomatic) To turn away from someone or something, in preparation for running away; to reverse direction; to leave or flee.

lam

(Slang, former) To beat; hit; strike

run away

To leave home, or other place of residence, usually unannounced, or to make good on a threat, with such action usually performed by a child or juvenile.

hightail-it

(Idiomatic) To hurry or run; often, to flee.

bunk

To go to bed:

take to the woods

flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

escape

(Computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.

fly-the-coop

(Of a bird) To escape from a pen or similar enclosure.

break-away

To become separated, literally or figuratively

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