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Definition of "hotfoot" [hot•foot]

  • Informal To go in haste. Often used with it: hotfoot it out of town. (verb-intransitive)
  • In haste. (adverb)
  • The practical joke of lighting a match that has been secretly inserted between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "hotfoot" in a sentence
  • ""hotfoot" boats, and in the land where a coolie may be hired all day for forty cents Mexican or twenty cents in our coin this human power is far cheaper than soft coal at five dollars a ton."
  • "Will you be having a word with the French Open organisers so you can hotfoot it over to Wembley for the Champions League final?"
  • "In this case, McLaughlin asked Gore to speak to the Democrat state legislator who was giving Google a privacy hotfoot."