hotfootEtymologyFrom Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.hotfoot means moving with haste or zeal. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.adjMoving with haste or zeal.“Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.”advHastily; without delay.nounThe prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.verbTo run (a distance).“He hotfooted the four-and-a-half blocks across town to the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and checked out the books Patterson had mentioned—and everything else about China he could quickly think of.”