Hola Maramaras and Frank!!
Hotfoot is more
slang than anything else. It means "to hurry" but it cannot be conjugated as a normal verb. I would not use it unless I was very sure of how to phrase it.
can we say? He hotfoot came back when he heard her voice again.
or
He came back hotfoot when he heard her voice again.
No, if you use it you
must say he
hotfooted it back or he came
hotfooting it back when he heard her voice.
You can say "let's
hotfoot it, or I'm going to
hotfoot it over to Maria's house. You can also say as a command: "
Hotfoot it over to the store and buy some milk!".
Notice that hotfoot is always followed by an
"it".
Hotfoot is also a noun. It refers to the old practical joke of sticking a match between the sole and upper of a person's shoe and lighting the match. When it burned down it gave the person a "hotfoot". It was used in old slapstick style comedy movies many years ago.
Saludos amigos!