Etymology

hotfoot

H4O1T1F4O1O1T1

Today it means: The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it. Full definition →

Middle English hot-fot
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromhot-fot
  2. English todayhotfoot

From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.