Usually means: New Year's tradition for luck.
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  1. first-footing, first-footing: Collins English Dictionary
  2. first-footing, first footing: Wiktionary
  3. First footing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. first-footing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (first footing)

noun:  (Scotland) The practice, during Hogmanay, of visiting friends and family, especially to be the first person to cross a home's threshold after midnight on New Year's Eve bearing a small gift.

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