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Hot-foot
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  • hot-foot — c.1300 (adv.) hastily, from HOT (Cf. hot) + FOOT (Cf. foot). As a verb, from 1896. As the name of a prank played with matches, by 1934 …   Etymology dictionary

  • hot-foot — hot foots, hot footing, hot footed also hotfoot VERB If you hot foot it somewhere, you go there in a hurry. [INFORMAL] [V it adv/prep] Richard was hot footing it back to London, to process everything. Syn: speed …   English dictionary

  • hot foot — If you hot foot it out of a place, you leave very quickly, often running …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • hot foot —    If you hot foot it out of a place, you leave very quickly, often running.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • Hot foot powder — is used in African American hoodoo folk magic to drive unwanted people away. It is a mixture of hot, spicy herbs and minerals, usually including cayenne pepper, sulfur, black pepper, and salt. In the 1930s song Hell Hound on My Trail, the famous… …   Wikipedia

  • hot foot syndrome — Pseudomonas hot foot s …   Medical dictionary

  • hot-foot — An ill conceived practical joke in secretly placing a match between the sole and vamp of a person s shoe and then igniting the match …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • hot|foot — …   Useful english dictionary

  • hot·foot — …   Useful english dictionary

  • hot-foot — …   Useful english dictionary

  • Pseudomonas hot foot syndrome — a skin eruption characterized by painful, erythematous nodules on the soles of the feet, seen in persons exposed to Pseudomonas aeruginosa, such as children using a wading pool with abrasive strips of tape on the bottom. Called also hot foot s …   Medical dictionary


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