Definition of "afoot" []

• On foot; walking. (adverb)
• In the process of being carried out; astir: plans afoot to resign. (adverb)

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.

• "Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it."
• "There will be more afoot, in other words, than sonic silliness."
• "But in the wider context, something greater is afoot, which is the assembling of all the institutions of State by which one may say "we have become an Independent Sovereign State"."