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Originally Posted by Frank van den Eeden
Vicente,
you say "hotfoot" doesn't exist as an adverb, but it does.
According to the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary :
Definition :
hotfoot
adverb INFORMAL
very quickly and without delay:
She'd come hotfoot from the palace with the latest news.
In which case, "hotfoot" is NOT followed by it.
I would, as you advise, never use it myself.
And I haven't heard it much either.
Cheerio ! 
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Hi Frank and Vicente. Well, I must say I have
never heard it.
interesting use though.
I suppose grammatically spoken ti might actually exist as an adverb. But , as vicente says, it is not used at such. That will do for me!
this is the funny definition answers.com gives:
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The practical joke of lighting a match that has been secretly inserted between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe.
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Vicente, I have a question here:
This is what they also say:
I understood by your examples that
hey, hotfoot it!!
Would mean: hey, come on, get going, hurry up!!
And not: hey, get out of here! Get lost!!
I wonder ....
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