hotfoot
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Washington has been getting poked in the eye, given the hotfoot, had bubble gum put on its hat or had its pants pulled down in public since 1901 by the “national pastime.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2019
The smart sneakers will stymie your prankster buddies when they stoop down to surreptitiously give you a hotfoot.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2019
I decided to take time off work the very next day and hotfoot it to Tel Aviv, to get ahead of any competitors.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
And so they hotfoot it to Paris, leaving their new spouses behind in bewildered ignorance, determined to live sensibly together.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2011
"I wish whoever gave Kravitz that hotfoot would confess," said Specimen.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
A University of Chicago dropout, she hotfoots it to New York on the strength of a Greyhound hookup.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2021
As this year's series of Strictly Come Dancing hotfoots its way towards crowning its winner, reigning champ Joe McFadden professes to not feeling too glum about giving up the glitterball.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2018
Unlike The Goonies, whose narrative is a rapid succession of hotfoots, Back to the Future has a long fuse that, halfway through, explodes into comic epiphany.
From Time Magazine Archive
She hotfoots it down from the stands, gives Duarte a second hug and decrees that he get a medal for extraordinary heroism.
From Time Magazine Archive
And get this: hotfoot becomes hotfoots, and still life becomes still lifes.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
