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

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

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2015

And so they hotfoot it to Paris, leaving their new spouses behind in bewildered ignorance, determined to live sensibly together.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2011

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

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