hotfoot vs routine

hotfoot

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). 

adj
  • Moving with haste or zeal. 

routine

noun
  • A set piece of an entertainer's act. 

  • A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure. 

  • A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically. 

  • A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine. 

adj
  • Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others. 

  • According to established procedure. 

  • Regular; habitual. 

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