head for the hills

Definitions of head for the hills

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

synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail

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flee, fly, take flight
run away quickly

skedaddle
run away, as if in a panic

break
make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing

stampede
run away in a stampede

abscond, absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off
run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

elope, run off
run away secretly with one's beloved

break loose, escape, get away
run away from confinement

high-tail
retreat at full speed

defect, desert
desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army

type of:
go away, go forth, leave
go away from a place

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