Meaning of HOTFOOT
Pronunciation: | | 'hât`fût
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- [adv] without delay; speedily; "sent ambassadors hotfoot to the Turks"- Francis Hackett; "drove hotfoot for Boston"
- [v] step on it; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street"
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| Synonyms: | | belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed |
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| Antonyms: | | dawdle, linger | |
| See Also: | | accelerate, barge, buck, charge, dart, dash, flash, go, locomote, move, push forward, quicken, scoot, scud, shoot, shoot down, speed up, tear, thrust ahead, travel | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Hot"foot`\, adv.
In haste; foothot. [Colloq.]
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| Related Terms: | | amain, apace, at once, bound, by forced marches, canter, cursorily, expeditiously, feverishly, fox-trot, furiously, gallop, get, get cracking, git, hand over fist, hastily, helter-skelter, hightail, hop, hop along, hop to it, hump, hump it, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, immediately, in passing, instantly, leap, lope, make tracks, on the run, pell-mell, promptly, quickly, run, shag ass, shake it up, slapdash, snap to it, speedily, spring, sprint, step, step along, step lively, step on it, superficially, swiftly, tear ass, trip, trot, with a rush, with all haste, with dispatch, with haste |
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