[
UK
/hˈɒtfʊt/
]
ADVERB
-
without delay; speedily
sent ambassadors hotfoot to the Turks
drove hotfoot for Boston
NOUN
- a practical joke that involves inserting a match surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe and then lighting it
VERB
-
move hurridly
He rushed down the hall to receive his guests
The cars raced down the street
How To Use hotfoot In A Sentence
- It was still there a couple of years ago when Brendan Laney and Todd Blackadder arrived hotfoot from an NPC final.
- 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.
- We hotfooted it down to the beach.
- She snagged it and hotfooted it to the editing facility. COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE
- 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.
- 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. Ulysses
- People coming off work hotfooted it down the street.
- British withdrawal from ‘East of Suez ‘brought the Soviet navy hotfoot into the Indian Ocean, not least from Vladivostok.’
- Frankly, if those nasty little cliques are all that's on offer on the parenting front, I can't blame anyone for wanting to hotfoot it back to the office, sharpish.
