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hotfoot

hotfoot noun: the prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.

Noun

hotfoot (plural hotfoots)

  1. (US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.

Adjective

hotfoot

  1. Moving with haste or zeal.
    • Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.1938, Elwyn Brooks White, The Fox of Peapack, and Other Poems, page 137

Adverb

hotfoot

  1. (UK) Hastily; without delay.

Verb

hotfoot (third-person singular simple present hotfoots, present participle hotfooting, simple past and past participle hotfooted)

  1. (transitive) To run (a distance).
    • 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.2007, R.C. Harvey, Meanwhile...
    • 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.2010, Eric Hammel, Coral and Blood: The U.S. Marine Corps’ Pacific Campaign, page 55

hotfoot meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

hotfoot in Tamil

மிக விரைவாக

hotfoot in Malayalam

speedily, hastily, hurriedly
ശീഘ്രത്തിൽ, വേഗത്തിൽ, തിടുക്കത്തിൽ, ബദ്ധപ്പെട്ട്, അശനെെഃബദ്ധപ്പാടോടെ, ഝടിതിയിൽ

Forms of hotfoot

Noun
pluralhotfoots
Verb
third-person singular presenthotfoots
present participlehotfooting
past participlehotfooted
pasthotfooted

Origin of hotfoot

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

Words formed from hotfoot

Questions about hotfoot

What does hotfoot mean?
Hotfoot means the prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.
What is hotfoot in Tamil?
Hotfoot in Tamil is மிக விரைவாக. See Hotfoot meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hotfoot?
Hotfoot can be a noun, an adjective, an adverb or a verb.
What is the plural of hotfoot?
The plural of hotfoot is hotfoots.

Words near hotfoot in the dictionary

  1. hotfire tests
  2. hotfix
  3. hotfixes
  4. hotflash
  5. hotflashes
  6. hotfoot
  7. hotfoot it
  8. hotfooted
  9. hotfooting
  10. hotfoots
  11. hotgun

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hotfoot (page history and authors); hotfoot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hotfoot (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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