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in hot pursuit

in hot pursuit prepositional phrase: pursuing someone in order to apprehend them, especially across a border.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Pursuing someone in order to apprehend them, especially across a border.
    • PC Winters gunned the patrol car out of the side road where they'd been parked, bored and waiting for the end of their shift, and took off in hot pursuit.2011, Colin Bateman, SOS Adventure: Tusk

Origin of in hot pursuit

See hot pursuit.

Questions about in hot pursuit

What does in hot pursuit mean?
In hot pursuit means pursuing someone in order to apprehend them, especially across a border.
What part of speech is in hot pursuit?
In hot pursuit is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in hot pursuit in the dictionary

  1. in hindsight
  2. in hock
  3. in honor of
  4. in honour of
  5. in hospital
  6. in hot pursuit
  7. in house
  8. in hysterics
  9. in idea
  10. in ill part
  11. in increment

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