verb
- Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.
- usage: "If you see this man, run"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
- synonyms: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, break away
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