DCHP-3

make tracks (for)†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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leave; start out (for a place), usually in haste.

Quotations

1849
. . . we divided the baggage, and each carrying a portion . . . we "made tracks" for Horse-shoe Lake.
1873
At length I tired of my continued rise and fall, and, gold being found at Carriboo, I made tracks for that land of promise, determining to drop speculation.
1953
"If I'm to get there on time, I'll have to make tracks, won't I?"