foot it
verb1
To walk.
- At length, receiving his quarterly allowance of fifteen guineas, instead of discharging his debts he walk'd out of town, hid his gown in a furze bush, and footed it to London, […]1771–1790, Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography [Part 1]”, in John Bigelow, editor, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., published 1868, →OCLC, page 158:
2
To dance.
- `'Tis melancholy work facing and footing it to one of your own sort, and no clasping and colling at all.'1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 24:
3
To drive quickly, with the accelerator down.
- The Mail would be footing it at fifty—maybe more.1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 54: