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hoof
(redirected from hoofing)

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on the hoof
1. if you make a decision on the hoof, you make it quickly to react to a situation which is happening, and do not have time to think about it carefully.
2. if you do something on the hoof, you do it while you are walking around doing other things. He's so busy, he usually has lunch on the hoof.

hoof it
to walk. My car was being repaired, so I decided to hoof it to the train station.

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NYC tap festival Top City presented awards in July to RUSTY FRANK for tap preservation and LYNN DALLY for hoofing.
I am so happy,'' said Megan Samuels, a screenwriter in Woodland Hills, hoofing it through a late-afternoon drizzle along Topanga Canyon Boulevard.
That's Jerry Mitchell's promise for the tenth anniversary celebration "Broadway Bares X--The Best of Broadway Bares," a sexy soiree set for June 11 at Manhattan's Roseland Ballroom, during which some of New York theater's buffest beauties--those gorgeous chores gypsies, male and female alike, usually hoofing behind the stars--will take center stage and peel it off to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
 
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