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hotfooted

[hot-foot]

hot·foot

[hot-foot] noun, plural -foots, verb, adverb
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.
verb (used without object)
2.
Informal. to go in great haste; walk or run hurriedly or rapidly (often followed by it): to hotfoot it to the bus stop.

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Hotfooted is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
adverb
3.
with great speed in going; in haste.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English hot fot (adv.). See hot, foot
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