hotfoot

Example Sentences

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“But when the lights came up, I was just another colored man hotfooting it back to Colored Town — or else.”

From Washington Post

So here we are, 20 years after U.S. troops invaded Afghanistan and months since they hotfooted it out.

From Salon

A University of Chicago dropout, she hotfoots it to New York on the strength of a Greyhound hookup.

From New York Times

So Seattle’s grass still looks greener from San Francisco — while people already in Seattle are hotfooting it to the burbs.

From Seattle Times

With no medical appointments until midafternoon, I hotfooted it back to New Hampshire, borrowed a pair of skates, and set out on the ice of my old mill pond.

From New York Times