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foots it

foots it is the third-person singular simple present indicative of foot it.

Meaning of foot it

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

Questions about foots it

What is foots it the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Foots it is the third-person singular simple present indicative of foot it.

Words near foots it in the dictionary

  1. footrules
  2. footrunner
  3. footrunners
  4. foots
  5. Foots Creek
  6. foots it
  7. foots the bill
  8. foots up
  9. footsal
  10. footscraper
  11. footscrapers

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