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Hotfoot

verb

Move fast. Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it. "The cars raced down the street"

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"Hotfoot" Quotes from Famous Books

... he cried, pointing, and instantly a score, Dick and the sergeant among them, were hotfoot after the fugitives. Several shots were fired, but none hit, and the chase ...

— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler

... confided to his pipe—"there goes a man hotfoot to dig his own grave with his own tongue! The Selden kid has done told Uncle McClintock about Stan being in jail. She told him Stan hadn't written to Cousin Oscar about no jail, and that I wasn't to tell him either. Now goes Cousin Oscar on a beeline to tell ...

— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Words linked to "Hotfoot" : scud, practical joke, belt along, linger, dash, rush, dart, pelt along, hasten, move, flash, shoot down, shoot, push forward, thrust ahead, buck, go, race, charge, step on it, travel, tear, scoot, barge, locomote