What is "hotfoot it"

Usage examples of "hotfoot it".

At the first sign of danger, get the hell out and hotfoot it back to Pearl Harbor.

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.

Okay: retrieve the pack, then get down through the woods to the road as fast as possible, break camp, ditch the camping gear someplace, hotfoot it back to Lawrenceburg, and catch the first boat back to Carrollton tomorrow.

I shouldn't think they'd present any appreciable danger to us, not unless the others come to realize the deception when they arrive in Kuhmbrulun, and hotfoot it back to reinforce.

So, with our supply train gone, too, I decided our best course was to hotfoot it north while still we could travel.

The Angel Bandit had escaped the jail in San Francisco, and because of their similarity in appearance, he advised Rafe to hotfoot it out of town, or else join Ignacio in that great gold mine in the sky.

So if it had been a year ago, he would have been trying to hotfoot it after a bus wearing a pair of neatly tied Oxfords, slipping like a madman on the highly polished soles.

Then we can get to the ground from that roof, and hotfoot it to the car.

But none of us can hotfoot it over there, and in any event, there probably are far too few shoes for us.

Privately, the captain expected his `companion' to jump ship the moment it touched land, and hotfoot it back to England.