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hotfoot verb [ ˈhɒtfʊt ]

• walk or run quickly and eagerly.
• "we hotfooted it after him"
Similar: hurry, dash, run, race, sprint, bolt, dart, gallop, career, charge, shoot, hurtle, hare, bound, fly, speed, zoom, streak, make haste, hasten, tear, belt, pelt, scoot, zap, zip, whip, steam, go like a bat out of hell, burn rubber, bomb, bucket, leg it, wheech, boogie, hightail it, clip, barrel, post, hie, haste, drag/tear/haul ass,
Opposite: dawdle,

hotfoot adverb

• in eager haste.
• "he rushed hotfoot to the planning office to object"
Similar: hastily, hurriedly, speedily, quickly, fast, rapidly, swiftly, without delay, in haste, at top speed, at full tilt, as fast as possible, headlong, post-haste, pell-mell, helter-skelter, at a lick, like the wind, like greased lightning, at warp speed, like a bomb, like mad, like crazy, like blazes, like the clappers, at a rate of knots, like billy-o, lickety-split, apace, hurry-scurry,
Opposite: at moderate speed,


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