Crossword clues for hotfoot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hotfoot \Hot"foot`\, adv. In haste; foothot. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
adv. (context British English) hastily; without delay. n. (context US English) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.
WordNet
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" [syn: rush, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along] [ant: linger]
Usage examples of "hotfoot".
Colby hotfoot for his horse, and Anna apprehensively back to her mistress.
It was the very question she would have liked to put to him herself, but he had, after all, come hotfoot down to Dorset.
At the first sign of danger, get the hell out and hotfoot it back to Pearl Harbor.
The last thing I needed was a bunch of practical jokers trying to give me a hotfoot while I was trying to figure out how the team was being sabotaged on their pennant run.
The first week in June saw desperate marches in the Valley, with the outnumbering Federals hotfoot on the trail of Jackson, who turned to bay one moment and at the next was off again.
Your run-of-the-mill spy more than likely was a forty-two year old Dutch printer, hotfoot from Delft, telling you he was fleeing the enemy.
It was urgent---a matter of extreme urgency, a royal summons, his very words: official business and no questions asked---lights in the stable-yard, saddle up and off headlong and hotfoot across the land, our guides outstripped in breakneck pursuit of our duty!
He enjoyed the prospect of the Roman curia having to hotfoot it around the land mines and start dealing with real life.
When she turned into the bullpen, Peabody sprang up from her desk and hotfooted after her.
The majordomo is hotfooting it out here, and- Lord Ahl has come down to break his fast.
And begob what was it only that bloody old pantaloon Denis Breen in his bathslippers with two bloody big books tucked under his oxter and the wife hotfoot after him, unfortunate wretched woman, trotting like a poodle.
Somebody told Burt Bender about Pat's offer, and Burt hotfoots it over to the Orpheum booking office.
Stomping, hotfooting in the back of the truck, scraping the boot against the slat boards, he finally got the fire off his boot.
Carillo and Gonzales let him go and hotfoot it back to the crime scene.
I wiped the blood from my eyes and got my balance just in time to see Harwell Treadwell hotfoot it around the edge of the building.