hotfoot
Example Sentences
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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
As they fall over laughing, one can hotfoot it away.
From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2012
A hotfoot wasn’t going to bother a creature that was perfectly comfortable lying on a bed of coals.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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