Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "hot-foot".
The people in this village know me, for in response to an urgent telegram, which the whole village subscribed to send me, and which was carried by runner to Naini Tal for transmission, I once came hot-foot from Mokameh Ghat, where I was working, to rid them of a man-eating tiger.
After the play I went back to the hotel by myself, and the headwaiter told me that Piccolomini had set out hot-foot with his servant, his only luggage being a light portmanteau.
Gratchii would snatch up a groggy, confused Yeep, and start hot-footing it for the snow ramp over the stun-fence.
And if she thought he was going to hot-foot it over to her mother's and whine around and beg her to come home, she had another think coming.
I waited until he got to the corner, and when he turned right on Sunset I got out of the Olds and hot-footed it after him, slowing to a casual walk when I reached Sunset.