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hotfoot
English
Etymology
From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot +? foot.
Noun
hotfoot (plural hotfoots)
- (US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.
Adjective
hotfoot
- 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.
- 1938, Elwyn Brooks White, The Fox of Peapack, and Other Poems (page 137)
Adverb
hotfoot
- (Britain) hastily; without delay.
Translations
Verb
hotfoot (third-person singular simple present hotfoots, present participle hotfooting, simple past and past participle hotfooted)
- (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.
- 2007, R.C. Harvey, Meanwhile...
Derived terms
- hotfoot it
- hotfoot spell
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