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hotfoot
[hot-foot]
noun
plural
hotfootsa practical joke in which a match, inserted surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe, is lighted and allowed to burn down.
verb (used without object)
Informal.to go in great haste; walk or run hurriedly or rapidly (often followed byit ).
to hotfoot it to the bus stop.
adverb
with great speed in going; in haste.
hotfoot
/ ˈɒˌʊ /
adverb
with all possible speed; quickly
verb
to move quickly
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
“But when the lights came up, I was just another colored man hotfooting it back to Colored Town — or else.”
So here we are, 20 years after U.S. troops invaded Afghanistan and months since they hotfooted it out.
A University of Chicago dropout, she hotfoots it to New York on the strength of a Greyhound hookup.
So Seattle’s grass still looks greener from San Francisco — while people already in Seattle are hotfooting it to the burbs.
With no medical appointments until midafternoon, I hotfooted it back to New Hampshire, borrowed a pair of skates, and set out on the ice of my old mill pond.
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