hotfoot

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 gave him a little bit of a hotfoot, that’s all.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss