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hotfoot

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7 lettersPart of speech adverb, noun, verbSorted fhooottStarts with HEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. without delay; speedily

Word origin

From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.

Used in a sentence

  • Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.
  • He hotfooted the four-and-a-half blocks across town to the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and checked out the books Patterson had mentioned—and everything else about China he could quickly think of.
  • The Ford was shot up heavily, so Larkin hotfooted the last mile to Ewa. Once there, he took cover beneath a truck as unchallenged Zeros strafed the neatly parked MAG-21 aircraft and the base facilities.

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