Hotfoot \Hot"foot`\, adv.
In haste; foothot. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hotfoot
adv : without delay; speedily; "sent ambassadors hotfoot to the
Turks"- Francis Hackett; "drove hotfoot for Boston"
v : step on it; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests";
"The cars raced down the street" [syn: rush, hasten,
hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball
along, bucket along, belt along] [ant: linger]
WordNet (r) 2.0
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "hotfoot":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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