hotfoot
verb/ˈhɒtfʊt/
/ˈhɑːtfʊt/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they hotfoot | /ˈhɒtfʊt/ /ˈhɑːtfʊt/ |
| he / she / it hotfoots | /ˈhɒtfʊts/ /ˈhɑːtfʊts/ |
| past simple hotfooted | /ˈhɒtfʊtɪd/ /ˈhɑːtfʊtɪd/ |
| past participle hotfooted | /ˈhɒtfʊtɪd/ /ˈhɑːtfʊtɪd/ |
| -ing form hotfooting | /ˈhɒtfʊtɪŋ/ /ˈhɑːtfʊtɪŋ/ |
Idioms
See hotfoot in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryhotfoot it
- (informal) to walk or run somewhere quickly
- When the police arrived, they hotfooted it out of there.
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