Definitions for hotfoot

hotfoot hot·foot

Spelling: [hot-foo t]
IPA: /ˈhɒtˌfʊt/

Hotfoot is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in hotfoot (fhooott).

Definitions for hotfoot

noun

  1. a practical joke in which a match, inserted surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe, is lighted and allowed to burn down.

adverb

  1. with great speed in going; in haste.

verb (used without object)

  1. Informal. to go in great haste; walk or run hurriedly or rapidly (often followed by it):

Origin of hotfoot

1250-1300; Middle English hot fot (adv.). See hot, foot

Examples for hotfoot

Seize horses or even asses for your men, and ride in hotfoot.

"Let's hotfoot it down to the African village and see what the movies are doing that is interesting today," she proposed.

But about the time the twentieth century dawned, the new patent breakfast foods began to boom; and we got after them hotfoot.

It been so hot, I hate to hotfoot it nine miles to Winnsboro and huff dat same distance back on a hot summer day.

"Raish is hotfoot after that stock of mine," growled the light keeper.

As by one impulse they tore through the door and made, hotfoot, for the Long Branch.

"hotfoot from speech with me thou wentest to the battle," said he.

Just you stir your stumps and hotfoot a slug of square-faced gin into me if you know what's for your own best good.'

Then they turned and fled through the streets of Adrianople with a dozen Turks hotfoot after them.

If the effect had been produced in the soles of policemen's feet, Hoddan would have given every cop a hotfoot.

Word Value for hotfoot
Scrable

13

Words with friends

12

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