career vs hotfoot

career

verb
  • To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way. 

adj
  • Synonym of serial (“doing something repeatedly or regularly as part of one's lifestyle or career”) 

noun
  • General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it. 

  • One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession. 

  • A jouster's path during a joust. 

  • The flight of a hawk. 

hotfoot

verb
  • To run (a distance). 

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. 

adj
  • Moving with haste or zeal. 

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