hotfoot

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot +‎ foot.

Noun[edit]

hotfoot (plural hotfoots)

  1. (US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.

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hotfoot

  1. Moving with haste or zeal.
    • 1938, Elwyn Brooks White, The Fox of Peapack, and Other Poems, page 137:
      Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.

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hotfoot

  1. (Britain) Hastily; without delay.

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hotfoot (third-person singular simple present hotfoots, present participle hotfooting, simple past and past participle hotfooted)

  1. (transitive) To run (a distance).
    • 2007, R.C. Harvey, Meanwhile...:
      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.
    • 2010, Eric Hammel, Coral and Blood: The U.S. Marine Corps’ Pacific Campaign, page 55:
      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.

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