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verb hɒtˈfʊtˈhɒtfʊtˈhɑtˌfʊt with adverbial of direction Walk or run quickly and eagerly. we hotfooted it after him Example sentencesExamples - There are never any guarantees, she could hotfoot it today and be back in court tomorrow morning, but this is a golden opportunity for her.
- The campaigners hotfoot it back through Bournemouth, past the still-chanting crowd of protesters.
- In no mood to argue, I hotfooted it off the train at the next station.
- Mildly depressed, Taylor hotfooted it to Caithness for a bit of regenerative soul searching, and was introduced to MacKay through a mutual friend.
- Little town blues need melting away, so he hotfoots it for the bright lights and big cities.
- Sometimes our guards have to hotfoot it over to Buckley with extra shotguns and rifles.
- Finally Mary admits she said to Lela that she thought perhaps Tommy had something to do with the dead body, and that is when the frightened girl hotfoots it out of there.
- They had hotfooted it north in their hundreds to record the first sighting of a rare Snowy Egret on the Isle of Seil, near Oban.
- Kieran Richardson's blip will disappear off Lord Ferg's radar when he hotfoots it to Everton in the summer.
Synonyms hurry, dash, run, race, sprint, bolt, dart, gallop, career, charge, shoot, hurtle, hare, bound, fly, speed, zoom, streak, make haste, hasten informal tear, belt, pelt, scoot, zap, zip, whip, leg it, steam, go like a bat out of hell, burn rubber British informal bomb, bucket Scottish informal wheech North American informal boogie, hightail it, clip, barrel North American vulgar slang drag/tear/haul ass archaic post, hie, haste
adverb hɒtˈfʊtˈhɒtfʊtˈhɑtˌfʊt In eager haste. he rushed hotfoot to the planning office to object Example sentencesExamples - As a result of this broadcast ITV was inundated with inquiries and the camera team was sent hotfoot to film the pupils at Biddenham Upper School and to chat with them.
- He will arrive in Bradford on Avon hotfoot from Highgrove where he will have donned the garb of Father Christmas for the Prince of Wales's Christmas party.
- The local priest sent word to the Station that same night that he heard of poteen being sold in full view and openly at a certain premises and could I go there hotfoot?
- The most bizarre thing - for me, anyway - was meeting Maria, who entered the pub hotfoot from Mexico.
- Ophelia, a spy herself, comes hotfoot to tell of Hamlet's first piece of odd behaviour.
- It was still there a couple of years ago when Brendan Laney and Todd Blackadder arrived hotfoot from an NPC final.
- British withdrawal from ‘East of Suez ‘brought the Soviet navy hotfoot into the Indian Ocean, not least from Vladivostok.’
Synonyms hastily, hurriedly, speedily, quickly, fast, rapidly, swiftly, without delay, in haste, at top speed, at full tilt, as fast as possible headlong, post-haste, pell-mell, helter-skelter informal at a lick, like the wind, like greased lightning, at warp speed, like a bomb, like mad, like crazy, like blazes British informal like the clappers, at a rate of knots, like billy-o North American informal lickety-split literary apace, hurry-scurry
Rhymes afoot, clubfoot, foot, kaput, put, soot, splay-foot, underfoot, wrong-foot, Yakut verbˈhɑtˌfʊtˈhätˌfo͝ot with adverbial of direction Walk or run quickly and eagerly. we hotfooted it after him Example sentencesExamples - In no mood to argue, I hotfooted it off the train at the next station.
- Finally Mary admits she said to Lela that she thought perhaps Tommy had something to do with the dead body, and that is when the frightened girl hotfoots it out of there.
- Sometimes our guards have to hotfoot it over to Buckley with extra shotguns and rifles.
- Mildly depressed, Taylor hotfooted it to Caithness for a bit of regenerative soul searching, and was introduced to MacKay through a mutual friend.
- There are never any guarantees, she could hotfoot it today and be back in court tomorrow morning, but this is a golden opportunity for her.
- Kieran Richardson's blip will disappear off Lord Ferg's radar when he hotfoots it to Everton in the summer.
- They had hotfooted it north in their hundreds to record the first sighting of a rare Snowy Egret on the Isle of Seil, near Oban.
- Little town blues need melting away, so he hotfoots it for the bright lights and big cities.
- The campaigners hotfoot it back through Bournemouth, past the still-chanting crowd of protesters.
Synonyms hurry, dash, run, race, sprint, bolt, dart, gallop, career, charge, shoot, hurtle, hare, bound, fly, speed, zoom, streak, make haste, hasten
adverbˈhɑtˌfʊtˈhätˌfo͝ot In eager haste. he rushed hotfoot to the planning office to object Example sentencesExamples - As a result of this broadcast ITV was inundated with inquiries and the camera team was sent hotfoot to film the pupils at Biddenham Upper School and to chat with them.
- Ophelia, a spy herself, comes hotfoot to tell of Hamlet's first piece of odd behaviour.
- He will arrive in Bradford on Avon hotfoot from Highgrove where he will have donned the garb of Father Christmas for the Prince of Wales's Christmas party.
- British withdrawal from ‘East of Suez ‘brought the Soviet navy hotfoot into the Indian Ocean, not least from Vladivostok.’
- It was still there a couple of years ago when Brendan Laney and Todd Blackadder arrived hotfoot from an NPC final.
- The local priest sent word to the Station that same night that he heard of poteen being sold in full view and openly at a certain premises and could I go there hotfoot?
- The most bizarre thing - for me, anyway - was meeting Maria, who entered the pub hotfoot from Mexico.
Synonyms hastily, hurriedly, speedily, quickly, fast, rapidly, swiftly, without delay, in haste, at top speed, at full tilt, as fast as possible
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