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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a practical joke that involves inserting a match surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe and then lighting it v
1: move fast; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street" [syn: rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it] [ant: dawdle, linger] adv
1: without delay; speedily; "sent ambassadors hotfoot to the Turks"- Francis Hackett; "drove hotfoot for Boston"

Merriam Webster's

I. adverb Date: 14th century in haste II. intransitive verb Date: 1896 to go hotfoot ; hurry — usually used with it III. noun (plural hotfoots) Date: 1934 a practical joke in which a match is surreptitiously inserted between the upper and the sole of a victim's shoe and lighted

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv., v., & adj. --adv. in eager haste. --v.tr. hurry eagerly (esp. hotfoot it). --adj. acting quickly.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hotfoot Hot"foot`, adv. In haste; foothot. [Colloq.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see hot-foot

Moby Thesaurus

amain, apace, at once, bound, by forced marches, canter, cursorily, expeditiously, feverishly, fox-trot, furiously, gallop, get, get cracking, git, hand over fist, hastily, helter-skelter, hightail, hop, hop along, hop to it, hump, hump it, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, immediately, in passing, instantly, leap, lope, make tracks, on the run, pell-mell, promptly, quickly, run, shag ass, shake it up, slapdash, snap to it, speedily, spring, sprint, step, step along, step lively, step on it, superficially, swiftly, tear ass, trip, trot, with a rush, with all haste, with dispatch, with haste