hotfoot
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Howard is only one of the many characters woven into “Mary Toft,” and Palmer never resorts to pantomime — except, perhaps, for Nathanael St. André, the first surgeon to hotfoot it to Godalming.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2019
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
“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
Manhattan's Daily News, which eventually gets a rise out of everyone it hotfoots, last week got a rise out of the usually imperturbable British.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lately, however, the Nizam has been riled by repeated hotfoots from New Delhi, official hints that he ought to pack up his whole shebang and trundle out of Hyderabad to his flossy mansion in Bombay.
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
