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make tracks, to make tracksslang To quickly leave some place or move toward a place. "Tracks" refers to footprints. Come on, everybody, let's make tracks for the show before it gets too late. I've got to make tracks right now, but I'll catch up with you tomorrow.See also: make, trackmake tracks (for something)Fig. to move rapidly toward something or some place. The cowboys all made tracks for the chuck wagon. Let's make tracks! Here comes the sheriff.See also: make, trackmake tracksMove or leave in a hurry, as in If we're going to catch the first show, we'd better make tracks. This term alludes to the footprints left by running. [Slang; early 1800s] See also: make, trackmake tracks If you make tracks, you leave a place. Webb looked at the clock. `Ten past nine. We might as well be making tracks.' About 8pm, we decided it was time to start making tracks, but we all found it difficult to get going. Note: In this expression, `tracks' are footprints. See also: make, trackmake tracks (for) leave (for a place). informal 1984 David Brin Practice Effect We have another big climb ahead of us and another pass to get through. Let's make tracks. See also: make, trackmake ˈtracks (for something) (spoken) leave one place to go to another: It’s getting late; I think we’d better make tracks.See also: make, trackmake tracks tv. to move out of a place fast. Let’s make tracks. We gotta hit Adamsville before noon. See also: make, track make tracks Slang To move or leave in a hurry.See also: make, trackmake tracks, toTo leave in a hurry. This nineteenth-century American colloquialism was recorded by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) in his “Sam Slick” papers, which originally appeared in a Nova Scotia weekly in 1836, as well as in several earlier journals. Presumably it alludes to running away with a heavy tread, thereby leaving tracks in the dirt.See also: make |