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Meaning of HOTFOOT

Pronunciation:  'hât`fût

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adv]  without delay; speedily; "sent ambassadors hotfoot to the Turks"- Francis Hackett; "drove hotfoot for Boston"
  2. [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
 
 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
 
 Definition: 
\Hot"foot`\, adv.
In haste; foothot. [Colloq.]
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 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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