hotfoot

[US]/'hɒtfʊt/
[UK]/ˈhɑtˌfʊt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. at great speed, in a hurry
vt. & vi. to walk or run quickly (to a place)
Word Forms
Present Participlehotfooting
Past Tensehotfooted
Third Person Singularhotfoots
Past Participlehotfooted

Example Sentences

hotfoot it out of town.

he rushed hotfoot to the planning office to object.

we hotfooted it after him.

People coming off work hotfooted it down the street.

The children come running hotfoot when they hear tea is ready.

Once the police arrived, we hotfooted it out of there.

Like Bernard Shaw, he has tickled his readers' funny bone with a cultural hotfoot .

Real-world Examples

I caught up with Anna, hotfoot from Somerset and also just back from covering the Nato summit.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

" No, but don't say it in front of a millionaire. He might think you were giving him the hotfoot" .

Source: The Long Farewell (Part Two)

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