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hotfoot

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Hotfoot (noun) means a trick in which someone quietly puts a match into another person's shoe and sets it alight.

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A trick in which someone quietly puts a match into another person's shoe and sets it alight.
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Etymology

From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot + foot.

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"hotfoot" (noun) means a trick in which someone quietly puts a match into another person's shoe and sets it alight.
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