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hoof
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hoof it
Inf. to walk. If nobody gives us a ride, we'll have to hoof it. She hoofed it home from the dance in her high-heeled shoes.

on the hoof 
1. (British & Australian) 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 I don't want to make a decision on the hoof -- I need to give this some thought.
2. (British & Australian) 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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She tapped on tabletops and trod the backs of shirtless he-men, hoofing it up with Ginger Rogers and Bob Fosse.
I am so happy,'' said Megan Samuels, a screenwriter in Woodland Hills, hoofing it through a late-afternoon drizzle along Topanga Canyon Boulevard.
Although buses managed to take care of most guests, some ended up hoofing it in the rain.
 
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