Brewer's: Hot-foot

With speed; fast.

And the Blackfoot who courted each foeman's approach. Faith, `tis hotfoot he'd fly from the stout Father Roach.

Lover.

N.B. The Blackfoot was an Irish faction, similar to the Terry Alts in the early part of the nineteenth century.

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