hotfoot

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I - noun

a practical joke that involves inserting a match surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe and then lighting it
• Hypernyms:
practical joke

II - verb

move fast
- He rushed down the hall to receive his guests
- The cars raced down the street
• Syn:
rush, hasten, hie, speed, race,
pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it
• Ant:
linger (for: rush)
• See Also:
speed up (for: speed)
• Derivationally related forms:
speed (for: speed), speeding (for: speed), rush (for: rush), rushing (for: rush)
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Hyponyms:
barge, thrust ahead, push forward, tear, shoot,
shoot down, charge, buck, dart, dash, scoot,
scud, flash
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- They hotfoot up the hill

III - adverb

without delay;
speedily
- "sent ambassadors hotfoot to the Turks"- Francis Hackett
- drove hotfoot for Boston