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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

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

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

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

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

Lately, however, the Nizam has been riled by repeated hotfoots from New Delhi, official hints that he ought to pack up his whole shebang and trundle out of Hyderabad to his flossy mansion in Bombay.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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