English edit

Etymology edit

See hot pursuit

Prepositional phrase edit

in hot pursuit

  1. Pursuing someone in order to apprehend him, especially across a border.
    • 2011, Colin Bateman, SOS Adventure: Tusk:
      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.