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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it..
Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.
He hotfooted the four-and-a-half blocks across town to the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and checked out the books Patterson had mentioned—and everything else about China he could quickly think of.
The Ford was shot up heavily, so Larkin hotfooted the last mile to Ewa. Once there, he took cover beneath a truck as unchallenged Zeros strafed the neatly parked MAG-21 aircraft and the base facilities.
Use hot foot when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hot foot means (US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it..
Common synonyms include rush, race, hie, speed.
Possible antonyms include dawdle, linger.
Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.
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