hotfoot vs slapdash

hotfoot

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). 

adj
  • Moving with haste or zeal. 

slapdash

adv
  • In a hasty or careless manner. 

  • With a slap; all at once; slap. 

  • Directly, right there; slap-bang. 

verb
  • To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast. 

adj
  • Produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless. 

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