hotfoot

noun

1. (US)The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.

adj

1. Moving 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.”

adv

1. (British)Hastily; without delay.

verb

1. (transitive)To 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.”

   “The Ford was shot up heavily, so Larkin hotfooted the last mile to Ewa. Once there, he took cover beneath a truck as unchallenged Zeros strafed the neatly parked MAG-21 aircraft and the base facilities.”