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hotfoot it

hotfoot it verb: to hasten; to move rapidly.

Verb

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

  1. (informal, intransitive) to hasten; to move rapidly
    • My writing all took place over weekends, and because I only lived about ten miles away, Peter would hot-foot it to my home on a Monday morning to collect a large parcel of hand-typed sheets of copy, for despatch to the typesetters.2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47

hotfoot it meaning in Malayalam

hotfoot it in Malayalam

dash, hurry, run
ശീഘ്രം പോകുക, വേഗത്തിൽ പോകുക, വേഗംനടക്കുക, തിരക്കട്ടുപോകുക, ത്വരിതഗതിയിൽ പോകുക, ധൃതികൂട്ടുക

Forms of hotfoot it

third-person singular presenthotfoots it
present participlehotfooting it
past participlehotfooted it
pasthotfooted it

Questions about hotfoot it

What does hotfoot it mean?
Hotfoot it means to hasten; to move rapidly.
What is hotfoot it in Malayalam?
Hotfoot it in Malayalam is ശീഘ്രം പോകുക, വേഗത്തിൽ പോകുക, വേഗംനടക്കുക. See Hotfoot it meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is hotfoot it?
Hotfoot it is a verb.
What is the past tense of hotfoot it?
The past tense of hotfoot it is hotfooted it.

Words near hotfoot it in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hotfoot it (page history and authors); hotfoot it (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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