stump it

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stump it (third-person singular simple present stumps it, present participle stumping it, simple past and past participle stumped it)

1. (slang, dated, idiomatic) To go on foot; hence, to run away; to escape.
   • 1841, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Night and Morning:

     Stump it , my cove ; that's a Bow Street runner

   Synonym: leg it

2. (slang, US, dated) To make electioneering speeches.

• “stump”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.