hotfoot
adverb
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L192109 on Wikidata ↗noun
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L322073 on Wikidata ↗verb
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L331939 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.
- Moving with haste or zeal.
“Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.”
adv
Etymology: From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.
- Hastily; without delay.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.
- The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.
- To run (a distance).
“He hotfooted the four-and-a-half blocks across town to the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and checked out the books Patterson had mentioned—and everything else about China he could quickly think of.”
“The Ford was shot up heavily, so Larkin hotfooted the last mile to Ewa. Once there, he took cover beneath a truck as unchallenged Zeros strafed the neatly parked MAG-21 aircraft and the base facilities.”