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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a practical joke that involves inserting a match surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe and then lighting it;


VERB (1)

1. move fast;
- Example: "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"
- Example: "The cars raced down the street"
[syn: rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it]


ADVERB (1)

1. without delay; speedily;
- Example: "sent ambassadors hotfoot to the Turks"- Francis Hackett
- Example: "drove hotfoot for Boston"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hotfoot \Hot"foot`\, adv. In haste; foothot. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hotfoot adv 1: without delay; speedily; "sent ambassadors hotfoot to the Turks"- Francis Hackett; "drove hotfoot for Boston" n 1: a practical joke that involves inserting a match surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe and then lighting it v 1: move fast; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street" [syn: rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it] [ant: dawdle, linger]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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