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[hot-foot] / ˈhɒtˌfʊt /


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Howard is only one of the many characters woven into “Mary Toft,” and Palmer never resorts to pantomime — except, perhaps, for Nathanael St. André, the first surgeon to hotfoot it to Godalming.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2019

Washington has been getting poked in the eye, given the hotfoot, had bubble gum put on its hat or had its pants pulled down in public since 1901 by the “national pastime.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2019

I decided to take time off work the very next day and hotfoot it to Tel Aviv, to get ahead of any competitors.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019

Carr got up to talk to more voters, to pay for everything they’d ordered, and then to hotfoot it to a plane that would take him around the state.

From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2014

But the only way he could change that would be to tell Mr. Kravitz that he was the one who had given him the hotfoot.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

A University of Chicago dropout, she hotfoots it to New York on the strength of a Greyhound hookup.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2021

As this year's series of Strictly Come Dancing hotfoots its way towards crowning its winner, reigning champ Joe McFadden professes to not feeling too glum about giving up the glitterball.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2018

Other Berlin hotfoots: reports that "fat City men" hustle through London's financial district with steel helmets concealed under toppers; that English women are adopting a new helmet hairdo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Satiric broadsides and lyric hotfoots from the dauntless Kinks, who have been dishing out rock-'n'-roll mockery for over a decade and show no sign of letting up or simmering down.

From Time Magazine Archive

And get this: hotfoot becomes hotfoots, and still life becomes still lifes.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner




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