hotfoot
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They don’t all hotfoot it straight to the police station.
From Slate ● May 20, 2023
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
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
Thankfully there’s Warren Carlyle’s blissful choreography, especially the hotfoot, slip-sliding tap numbers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2018
“I gave him a little bit of a hotfoot, that’s all.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
The 30 members of the house and their 15 colleagues in the senate dispensed with the normal rounds of comradely hotfoots and other such capers and grimly got down to business.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Home is where my book is," thinks 36-year-old Harry Lesser as he hotfoots it back to his bachelor apartment in a decaying New York City tenement.
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
