TURN TAIL Meaning of TURN TAIL in English RUN AWAY, flee, bolt, make off, take to one's heels, cut and run, beat a (hasty) retreat; informal scram, scarper, skedaddle, vamoose. 2192; headword Concise Oxford thesaurus English vocabulary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка тезаурус. 2012