hotfoot vs motive

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). 

motive

adj
  • Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move 

  • Relating to motion and/or to its cause 

noun
  • A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated. 

  • A motif. 

  • An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action. 

  • Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour. 

verb
  • To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move. 

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