hotfoot it

English

Verb

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

1. (intransitive, informal) to hasten; to move rapidly
   • 2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47:

     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.

Translations

To hasten

• Bulgarian: бързам (bg) (bǎrzam)
• German: beeilen (de), eilen (de)