heel-and-toe
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English
Noun
- (attributive, automotive) An advanced driving technique that involves operating the throttle and brake pedals simultaneously with the right foot, facilitating normal activation of the clutch with the left foot.
- (attributive) A mode of walking in which the heel of one foot is put on the ground before the toe of the other leaves it.
- (nautical, military) Of a system of watches: comprising equal-length periods on and off watch.
- 1965, Boating (volume 18, numbers 1-6, page 28)
- It is most essential on a passage where the watches are heel and toe, four on, four off, that the watch below be a time of real rest.
- 2011, Phil Geusz, No Victory Won, page 354:
- Back when we'd started the heel-and-toe watches, I'd offset the schedule six hours in order to have both squadrons up and ready during the initial attack.
- 1965, Boating (volume 18, numbers 1-6, page 28)