light out

verb

verb

Etymology Phrasal verb from light (“to get down, drop, come”, verb) + out (“away from”, adverb).

Dated, Slang To go away or depart, especially in haste or without notice.

the outlaws lit out for the border
He didn’t see a road for him at TI, so he lit out to build one in Taiwan.2023 March 21, Virginia Heffernan, “I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory”, in WIRED:

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