hotfoot it

verb

to hasten; to move rapidly

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Meanings

verbhotfoot it (third-person singular simple present hotfoots it, present participle hotfooting it, simple past and past participle hotfooted it)

present singular third person hotfoots it · participle present hotfooting it · participle past hotfooted it · past hotfooted it

  1. informalintransitiveto hasten; to move rapidly

    My writing all took place over weekends, and because I only lived about ten miles away, Peter would hot-foot it to my home on a Monday morning to collect a large parcel of hand-typed sheets of copy, for despatch to the typesetters.

    2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47

Translations

Bulgarian бързам
  • бързам (bărzam)To hasten
German beeilen, eilen
  • beeilenTo hasten
  • eilenTo hasten
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APA

hotfoot it. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hotfoot%20it

MLA

“hotfoot it.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hotfoot%20it. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hotfoot it,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hotfoot%20it.

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