hotfoot

Example Sentences

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The smart sneakers will stymie your prankster buddies when they stoop down to surreptitiously give you a hotfoot.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 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

So, what say you and me hotfoot it to the airport and get on to that plane.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2018

One measly hotfoot, and you are out on your butt.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2015

A hotfoot wasn’t going to bother a creature that was perfectly comfortable lying on a bed of coals.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss