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Hotfoot

adj, adv, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

Adverb
  1. 1
    Hastily; without delay. British
Adverb
  1. 1
    without delay; speedily wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it. US
  2. 2
    a practical joke that involves inserting a match surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe and then lighting it wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To run (a distance). transitive

    "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 think of."

  2. 2
    move hurridly wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.

Etymology 2

From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.

Etymology 3

From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.

Etymology 4

From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.

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