hotfootadverb
uk/ˌhɒtˈfʊt/us/ˈhɑːt.fʊt/informalvery quickly and without delay:
She'd come hotfoot from the palace with the latest news.
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Fast and rapid
- a mile a minute idiom
- apace
- as fast as your legs would carry you idiom
- as if it is going out of style idiom
- at a rate of knots idiom
- crash
- fleet
- have a heavy foot idiom
- high-speed
- in the twinkling of an eye idiom
- Jack Robinson
- lickety-split
- lightning
- like a shot idiom
- mile
- smartly
- souped-up
- spread like wildfire idiom
- swift
- tilt
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hotfootverb
uk/ˈhɒt.fʊt/us/ˈhɑːt.fʊt/hotfoot it informal
to run or walk somewhere as quickly as possible:
He walked in and I hotfooted it out the back door.
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Moving quickly
- beetle
- belt
- bob
- bowl down/along sth
- careen
- career
- glide
- gun
- leg
- outran
- pelt
- rush
- scamper
- scoot
- scrabble
- scramble
- scud
- shoot
- stampede
- trot
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