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What (who) is hot-foot - definition

METHOD OF TORTURE
Hot boots; Foot torture
  • Engraving of the Spanish Inquisition where a woman is being prepared for torture.

hot-foot         
User:Oneliketadow/Hot foot; Hot-foot; Hotfoot
also hotfoot (hot-foots, hot-footing, hot-footed)
If you hot-foot it somewhere, you go there in a hurry. (INFORMAL)
...a group of actors hot-footing it for the bar.
VERB: V it adv/prep
Hot foot         
User:Oneliketadow/Hot foot; Hot-foot; Hotfoot
The hot foot is a prank where the prankster sets the victim's shoe laces or shoe on fire with a match or lighter.
hotfoot         
User:Oneliketadow/Hot foot; Hot-foot; Hotfoot

Wikipedia

Foot roasting

Foot roasting is a method of torture used since ancient times.

Examples of use of hot-foot
1. They had originally been invited by the Queen to stay for two nights at Windsor but decided to hot–foot it home tomorrow night instead.
2. The airline began serving hot foot on its long–haul flights departing from Heathrow yesterday for the first time in 12 days.
3. So it is not unlikely that Ministers of State, arriving hot–foot from London, may occasionally supplement the regulation performance from the platform of the Free Trade Hall with a visit to the "broadcasting station" at Trafford Park.