hotfoot
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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
So, what say you and me hotfoot it to the airport and get on to that plane.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2018
He has come hotfoot from his new home in Sunningdale, Berkshire, where he has moved with his wife, a French artist, to be closer to Gracie, his 11-year-old daughter with his former partner, Anna Friel.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2017
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
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
Said Sam Rosenberg: "We like to think we got all our business hotfoots when we were young."
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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