hotfoot vs pell-mell

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). 

pell-mell

adj
  • Hasty and uncontrolled. 

adv
  • In haste and chaos; uncontrolledly, confusedly. 

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