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Meaning of in hot pursuit | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Pursuing someone in order to apprehend them, especially across a border.

idiomatic

Examples

“PC Winters gunned the patrol car out of the side road where they'd been parked, bored and waiting for the end of their shift, and took off in hot pursuit.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

in hysterics in ill part in irons in isolation in it in its totality