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in hot pursuit en · ADP

Etymology

See hot pursuit.

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) Pursuing someone in order to apprehend them, especially across a border.
    • PC Winters gunned the patrol car out of the side road where they'd been parked, bored and waiting for the end of their shift, and took off in hot pursuit. 2011, Colin Bateman, SOS Adventure: Tusk: