Hotfoot vs Glide - What's the difference?
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(US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.
(British) hastily; without delay.
To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
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To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft.
To cause to glide.
(phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
The act of gliding.
(linguistics) Semivowel
(fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
A bird, the glede or kite.
As nouns the difference between hotfoot and glide
is that hotfoot is the prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it while glide is the act of gliding.As an adverb hotfoot
is hastily; without delay.As a verb glide is
to move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.hotfoot
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- The river glideth at his own sweet will.
- The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent.
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