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hotfoot
noun 1adj 1adv 1verb 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
all
VERB + HOTFOOT
got
HOTFOOT + NOUN
doom
ADV.
away
Definitions
noun
1
The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.
adj
1
Moving with haste or zeal.
Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.
adv
1
Hastily; without delay.
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Idioms & Phrases
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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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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 th
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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 facilitie
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I've got to hotfoot it to the station to get the last train.
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I've got to hotfoot it to the station to catch the last train.
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The metro is five minutes away if you hotfoot it.
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