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English

Etymology

From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot +? foot.

Noun

hotfoot (plural hotfoots)

1. (US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.

Adjective

hotfoot

1. Moving with haste or zeal.
   • 1938, Elwyn Brooks White, The Fox of Peapack, and Other Poems (page 137)

     Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.

Adverb

hotfoot

1. (Britain) hastily; without delay.

Translations

Verb

hotfoot (third-person singular simple present hotfoots, present participle hotfooting, simple past and past participle hotfooted)

1. (transitive) To run (a distance).
   • 2007, R.C. Harvey, Meanwhile...

     He hotfooted the four-and-a-half blocks across town to the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and checked out the books Patterson had mentioned—and everything else about China he could quickly think of.

   • 2010, Eric Hammel, Coral and Blood: The U.S. Marine Corps’ Pacific Campaign (page 55)

     The Ford was shot up heavily, so Larkin hotfooted the last mile to Ewa. Once there, he took cover beneath a truck as unchallenged Zeros strafed the neatly parked MAG-21 aircraft and the base facilities.

Derived terms

• hotfoot it
• hotfoot spell

Translations

Anagrams

• foothot

English

Etymology

From Middle English coste, cooste (“rib", also "shore”), from Old French coste, from Latin costa (“rib, side, edge”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: k?st, IPA^(key): /ko?st/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?st, IPA^(key): /k??st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Noun

coast (plural coasts)

1. The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake. [from 14th c.]

   The rocky coast of Maine has few beaches.

2. (obsolete) The side or edge of something. [15th-18th c.]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Isaac Newton to this entry?)

3. (obsolete) A region of land; a district or country. [14th-17th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale (translator), Bible, Matthew 2

     Then Herod perceavynge that he was moocked off the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth and slue all the chyldren that were in bethleem, and in all the costes thereof […]

   • P. Crescentius, in his lib. 1 de agric. cap. 5, is very copious in this subject, how a house should be wholesomely sited, in a good coast, good air, wind, etc.

4. (obsolete) A region of the air or heavens. [14th-17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III iii

     the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […]

Hypernyms

• (edge of land meeting an ocean, sea, gulf, or bay): shore, shoreline

Hyponyms

• (edge of land meeting an ocean, sea, gulf, or bay): oceanfront, seashore

Derived terms

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Translations

Verb

coast (third-person singular simple present coasts, present participle coasting, simple past and past participle coasted)

1. (intransitive) To glide along without adding energy; to allow a vehicle to continue moving forward after disengaging the engine or ceasing to apply motive power.
2. (intransitive, nautical) To sail along a coast.
   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations

     The Ancients coasted only in their Navigations.

3. (intransitive) To make a minimal effort; to continue to do something in a routine way, without initiative or effort.
   • November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk

     Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To sail by or near; to follow the coastline of.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To conduct along a coast or river bank.

   • The Indians […] coasted me a long the river.

7. (US, dialect) To slide downhill; to slide on a sled upon snow or ice.

Translations

Anagrams

• Ascot, Casto, Coats, Costa, Cotas, Sacto, Tosca, ascot, catso, coats, costa, octas, scato-, scoat, tacos