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foot it

foot it verb: to walk.

Verb

foot it (third-person singular simple present foots it, present participle footing it, simple past and past participle footed it)

  1. To walk.
    • At length, receiving his quarterly allowance of fifteen guineas, instead of discharging his debts he walk'd out of town, hid his gown in a furze bush, and footed it to London, […]1771–1790, Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography [Part 1]”, in John Bigelow, editor, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., published 1868...
  2. To dance.
    • `'Tis melancholy work facing and footing it to one of your own sort, and no clasping and colling at all.'1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 24
  3. To drive quickly, with the accelerator down.
    • The Mail would be footing it at fifty—maybe more.1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 54

Forms of foot it

third-person singular presentfoots it
present participlefooting it
past participlefooted it
pastfooted it

Questions about foot it

What does foot it mean?
Foot it means to walk.
What part of speech is foot it?
Foot it is a verb.
What is the past tense of foot it?
The past tense of foot it is footed it.

Words near foot it in the dictionary

  1. foot fungus
  2. foot funk
  3. foot guard
  4. foot guards
  5. foot heater
  6. foot it
  7. foot job
  8. foot jobs
  9. foot juggling
  10. foot kiss
  11. foot kisses

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