hotfoot

[US]/'hɒtfʊt/
[UK]/ˈhɑtˌfʊt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. med stor fart, i hast
vt. & vi. at gå eller løbe hurtigt (til et sted)
Word Forms
Present Participlehotfooting
Past Tensehotfooted
Third Person Singularhotfoots
Past Participlehotfooted

Example Sentences

hotfoot it out of town.

vi smuttede ud af byen.

he rushed hotfoot to the planning office to object.

han skyndte sig hotfoot til planlægningskontoret for at protestere.

we hotfooted it after him.

vi smuttede efter ham.

People coming off work hotfooted it down the street.

Folk, der kom fra arbejdet, smuttede ned ad gaden.

The children come running hotfoot when they hear tea is ready.

Børnene kommer løbende hotfoot, når de hører, at teen er klar.

Once the police arrived, we hotfooted it out of there.

Da politiet ankom, smuttede vi ud derfra.

Like Bernard Shaw, he has tickled his readers' funny bone with a cultural hotfoot .

Ligesom Bernard Shaw har han pirret sine læseres humor med en kulturel hotfoot.

Real-world Examples

I caught up with Anna, hotfoot from Somerset and also just back from covering the Nato summit.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

" No, but don't say it in front of a millionaire. He might think you were giving him the hotfoot" .

Source: The Long Farewell (Part Two)

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