hotfoot it

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hotfoot it

verb hotfoots it · hotfooting it · hotfooted it

  1. informal, intransitive to hasten; to move rapidly My writing all took place over weekends, and because I only lived about ten miles away, Peter would hot-foot it to my home on a Monday morning to collect a large parcel of hand-typed sheets of copy, for despatch to the typesetters.

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verb To hasten

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@misc{hotfoot_it_2026,
  title = {hotfoot it},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hotfoot%20it},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}