hotfoot vs dash

hotfoot and dash both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hotfoot	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
dash	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, dash is a hyponym of hotfoot; that is, dash is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hotfoot:

Other hyponyms of hotfoot include barge, push forward, thrust ahead, buck, charge, shoot, shoot down, tear, dart, flash, scoot, scud, shoot.

hotfoot (noun)	dash (noun)
a practical joke that involves inserting a match surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe and then lighting it	a quick run
	the act of moving with great haste
	distinctive and stylish elegance
	the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
	a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
	a footrace run at top speed

hotfoot (verb)	dash (verb)
move hurridly	break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
	add an enlivening or altering element to
	hurl or thrust violently
	cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away
	run or move very quickly or hastily
	destroy or break

hotfoot (adverb)	dash (adverb)
without delay; speedily