accelerate vs hotfoot

accelerate

adj
  • Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried. 

verb
  • To become faster; to begin to move more quickly. 

  • To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time. 

  • Grow; increase. 

  • To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of. 

  • To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of. 

  • To cause a change of velocity. 

  • To hasten, as the occurrence of an event. 

hotfoot

adj
  • Moving with haste or zeal. 

adv
  • Hastily; without delay. 

noun
  • The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it. 

verb
  • To run (a distance). 

How often have the words accelerate and hotfoot occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )