bug out

bug out
   American
   to retreat
   From the slang meaning, to quit rapidly. Bugout fever, in the Korean War, was cowardice:
    'Bug-out fever', the urge to withdraw precipitately in the face of the slightest threat from the flank... (M. Hastings, 1987)

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