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hotfooting

hotfooting is the present participle and gerund of hotfoot.

Meaning of hotfoot

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...

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Questions about hotfooting

What is hotfooting the present participle and gerund of?
Hotfooting is the present participle and gerund of hotfoot.

Words near hotfooting in the dictionary

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

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