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Hotfoot

adverb
1.
Without delay; speedily.  "Drove hotfoot for Boston"
noun
1.
A practical joke that involves inserting a match surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe and then lighting it.
verb
1.
Move fast.  Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it.  "The cars raced down the street"





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"Hotfoot" Quotes from Famous Books



... of his life. The battle was all against him. The best he could hope to do was to hold his own until help arrived; so he sent the boy off hotfoot. Although his power for a short exertion was great, Steve was in no kind of training, having allowed himself to fatten up, and being an inordinate user of tobacco. Per contra, the deer felt freshened and invigorated by exertion. That's the deuce of ...
— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips
... meditations what would have been the effect of that diatribe upon some of his brethren. He smiled to himself, as he sat over his solitary supper in the Refectory, to picture the various expressions he could imagine upon their faces when they came hotfoot from the Guest-chamber with the news of what manner of priest was in their midst. And while he was sipping his bowl of pea-soup, he looked up at the image of St. George and perceived that the dragon's expression bore a distinct resemblance to that of the Reverend Andrew Hett. ...
— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie
... Doran. I didn't know what was up and Alf kept making signs out of the door. And begob what was it only that bloody old pantaloon Denis Breen in his bathslippers with two bloody big books tucked under his oxter and the wife hotfoot after him, unfortunate wretched woman, trotting like a poodle. I thought Alf ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... ambushed and badly shot this side of Clayton, and Thorndike the scout, too; Bill couldn't travel, but Thorndike could, and he brought the news, and Sergeant Wilkes and six men of Company B are gone, two hours ago, hotfoot, to ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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