hotfoot
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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
So, what say you and me hotfoot it to the airport and get on to that plane.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2018
One measly hotfoot, and you are out on your butt.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2015
Carr got up to talk to more voters, to pay for everything they’d ordered, and then to hotfoot it to a plane that would take him around the state.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2014
But the only way he could change that would be to tell Mr. Kravitz that he was the one who had given him the hotfoot.
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
When the duties of his office absolutely require it, he grimaces, twirls Laura a few times and then hotfoots it off the parquet.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the boss of a job wants help, he does not go to Boise; Morrison or one of his lieutenants hotfoots it out to the job.
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
