Contextualizebeta

hit the road

verb

Etymology

Compare typologically Russian уда́риться в бега́ (udáritʹsja v begá), уда́рить по та́пкам (udáritʹ po tápkam), тро́нуться (trónutʹsja).

  1. derived from уда́риться в бега́

Definitions

  1. To begin traveling in an automobile or other road vehicle.

    • If we're gonna make it by sunset, we'd better hit the road.

  2. To leave a place

    To leave a place; to go away.

    • It's time for me to hit the road and walk home.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hit the road. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA