Hotfoot

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hotfoot \Hot"foot`\, adv.
     In haste; foothot. [Colloq.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  hotfoot
       adv : without delay; speedily; "sent ambassadors hotfoot to the
             Turks"- Francis Hackett; "drove hotfoot for Boston"
       v : step on it; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests";
           "The cars raced down the street" [syn: {rush}, {hasten},
           {hie}, {speed}, {race}, {pelt along}, {rush along}, {cannonball
           along}, {bucket along}, {belt along}] [ant: {linger}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "hotfoot":
     amain, apace, at once, bound, by forced marches, canter, cursorily,
     expeditiously, feverishly, fox-trot, furiously, gallop, get,
     get cracking, git, hand over fist, hastily, helter-skelter,
     hightail, hop, hop along, hop to it, hump, hump it, hurriedly,
     hurry-scurry, immediately, in passing, instantly, leap, lope,
     make tracks, on the run, pell-mell, promptly, quickly, run,
     shag ass, shake it up, slapdash, snap to it, speedily, spring,
     sprint, step, step along, step lively, step on it, superficially,
     swiftly, tear ass, trip, trot, with a rush, with all haste,
     with dispatch, with haste