alive vs hotfoot

alive

adj
  • Sprightly; lively; brisk. 

  • Carrying electrical current; energized. 

  • Having life; living; not dead. 

  • In a state of action; in force or operation; existent. 

  • Susceptible, sensitive; easy to impress; having keen feelings, as opposed to apathy. 

  • Synonym of live 

  • Out of all living creatures. 

  • Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy. 

hotfoot

adj
  • Moving with haste or zeal. 

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

adv
  • Hastily; without delay. 

verb
  • To run (a distance). 

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