To be off rapidly.

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1834.  I dropt the book and streaked it out of school, and pulled foot for home as fast as I could go, and I never showed my head in school again from that day to this.—Seba Smith (‘Major Downing’), ‘My Thirty Years Out of the Senate,’ p. 29 (1860).

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1836.  I no sooner quit the steamer than I streaked it straight ahead for the principal tavern.—‘Col. Crockett in Texas,’ p. 38.

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1837.  [He was] “streaking it” down Baltimore Street in his shirt sleeves.—Balt. Comml. Transcript, Sept. 2, p. 2/1.

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1840.  I came upon a raal Indian trail, and no mistake about it—where a dozen men or more had streaked it through the sand after my shoe and moccasin.—C. F. Hoffman, ‘Greyslaer,’ ii. 26.

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1854.  

        Don’t stop to wash, don’t stop to button,
  Go the ways your Fathers trod,
Go it,—leg it,—put it,—streak it,—
  Rouse up from the land of Nod!
Yale Lit. Mag., xx. 105 (Dec.).    

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1856.  [You were] streeking it, fast as your mare could carry you.—W. G. Simms, ‘Eutaw,’ p. 17 (N.Y.).

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