hotfoot it en · VERB
Meanings
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(informal, intransitive) to hasten; to move rapidly
My writing all took place over weekends, and because I only lived about ten miles away, Peter would hot-foot it to my home on a Monday morning to collect a large parcel of hand-typed sheets of copy, for despatch to the typesetters.
2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| hotfooted it | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| hotfooted it | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| hotfoots it | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| hotfooting it | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Translations (3)
bg бързам (To hasten) · de beeilen (To hasten) · de eilen (To hasten)