tip and run

noun

prenominal characterized by a rapid departure immediately after striking
a tip-and-run raid

Therein lay the reason for the tip-and-run nature of the raids, which lasted for a few minutes only.

We must needs live a tip-and-run life,—do our work, and return to safety behind submarine defences.

And I'm awfully sorry it had to be tip-and-run, but there wasn't anything else for it at the time.

Fifteen miles to the south our Nieuports would be waiting for the next tip-and-run call to flight.

"Tip-and-run tactics" had no supporters in the British Air Service.

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