"hoof it" meaning in English

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      "form": "hoofs it",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "hoofing it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hoofed it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hoofed it",
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2017, Charles E. Morgan III, The Case of the Stolen Jewelry",
          "text": "I hoofed it around the store. I didn't see any soda pop bottles, anywhere.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To walk, especially when as a result of regular transportation being unavailable."
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        "(slang) To walk, especially when as a result of regular transportation being unavailable."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2017, David M. Kelly, Mathematics of Eternity",
          "text": "It was doing what looked like an old-fashioned soft-shoe dance, complete with miniature cane, bow tie, and top hat. As it danced, it sang in a squeaky whistle.\n\"...the old lady was doing a broken-down conga in twenty-five. We hoofed it 'till we couldn't take it any longer and had to jive...\"",
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      "glosses": [
        "To dance."
      ],
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          "dance",
          "dance"
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        "(slang) To dance."
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, W. S. Walton, The Demos at Dawn, page 456",
          "text": "Now hoof it. Don't leave Athens to those Asian cowards who ran from us this morning.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To depart; scram."
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          "depart",
          "depart"
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          "scram",
          "scram"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) To depart; scram."
      ],
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    {
      "form": "hoofs it",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "hoofing it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hoofed it",
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    },
    {
      "form": "hoofed it",
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        }
      ],
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        "To walk, especially when as a result of regular transportation being unavailable."
      ],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To dance."
      ],
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        [
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        "(slang) To dance."
      ],
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          "text": "Now hoof it. Don't leave Athens to those Asian cowards who ran from us this morning.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To depart; scram."
      ],
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        [
          "depart",
          "depart"
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        [
          "scram",
          "scram"
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        "(slang) To depart; scram."
      ],
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