Meaning

2 senses
  1. To travel to a higher elevation, especially to a rural region on vacation.

  2. (idiomatic)To go to a safe place; to seek refuge; to flee.

More definitions
  • flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

Forms

heads for the hills, heading for the hills, headed for the hills, headed for the hills
Base formhead for the hills · to head for the hills
3rd person singularheads for the hills
Present participleheading for the hills
Past simpleheaded for the hills
Past participleheaded for the hills

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhead for the hills
he, she, itheads for the hills

Past simpleLesson

all personsheaded for the hills

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave headed for the hills
he, she, ithas headed for the hills

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill head for the hills

Synonyms

12 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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