headlong vs hotfoot

headlong

adj
  • Rushing forward without restraint. 

  • Precipitous. 

  • Reckless, impetuous. 

  • Plunging downwards head foremost. 

verb
  • To precipitate. 

adv
  • With an unrestrained forward motion. 

  • Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation; in haste, hastily. 

  • With the head first or down. 

hotfoot

adj
  • Moving with haste or zeal. 

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. 

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