hotfoot
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
adverb
adverb
verb
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of hotfoot
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They don’t all hotfoot it straight to the police station.
From Slate ● May 20, 2023
I decided to take time off work the very next day and hotfoot it to Tel Aviv, to get ahead of any competitors.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
So, what say you and me hotfoot it to the airport and get on to that plane.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2018
One measly hotfoot, and you are out on your butt.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2015
A hotfoot wasn’t going to bother a creature that was perfectly comfortable lying on a bed of coals.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
A University of Chicago dropout, she hotfoots it to New York on the strength of a Greyhound hookup.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2021
As this year's series of Strictly Come Dancing hotfoots its way towards crowning its winner, reigning champ Joe McFadden professes to not feeling too glum about giving up the glitterball.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2018
Said Sam Rosenberg: "We like to think we got all our business hotfoots when we were young."
From Time Magazine Archive
She hotfoots it down from the stands, gives Duarte a second hug and decrees that he get a medal for extraordinary heroism.
From Time Magazine Archive
And get this: hotfoot becomes hotfoots, and still life becomes still lifes.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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