Hotfoot

Synonyms for "hotfoot" (85 found)

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Closest matches (17)

amain apace at once bear down bound bullet by forced marches canter cursorily dust expeditiously feverishly fox trot fox-trot

Verb(3 words)

belt along bucket along cannonball along

Strong matches (26)

furiously gallop get get cracking git hand over fist haste hastily helter skelter helter-skelter highball hightail hop hop along hop to it hump hump it hurriedly hurriedness hurry scurry

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hurry-scurry hustle immediately impetuously

Verb(2 words)

hasten hie

Related words (42)

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

5 entries

go locomote move practical joke travel

Synonyms

1 entries

rush

derived

2 entries

hotfoot it hotfoot spell

derived from

2 entries

foot hot

has context

2 entries

british us

is a

1 entries

practical joke

related to

3 entries

delay hastily run

Translations

6 translations across 2 languages.

Bulgarian

3 entries

бързо adv (Hastily)
спешно adv (Hastily)
тичам verb (To run)

German

3 entries

schnell adv (Hastily)
unverzüglich adv (Hastily)
rennen verb (To run)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I've got to hotfoot it to the station to get the last train.

Source: tatoeba (9479844)

I've got to hotfoot it to the station to catch the last train.

Source: tatoeba (9479847)

The metro is five minutes away if you hotfoot it.

Source: tatoeba (10520351)

Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.