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hot
[ hot ]
adjective
- having or giving off heat; having a high temperature:
a hot fire;
hot coffee.
Synonyms: sultry, torrid, boiling, scorching, burning, fiery, heated
Antonyms: cold
- having or causing a sensation of great bodily heat; attended with or producing such a sensation:
He was hot with fever.
- creating a burning sensation, as on the skin or in the throat:
This ointment is hot, so apply it sparingly.
- sharply peppery or pungent:
Is this mustard hot?
- having or showing intense or violent feeling; ardent; fervent; vehement; excited:
a hot temper.
Synonyms: violent, irate, furious, angry, impetuous, excitable, intense, passionate, fiery, fervid
- Informal. having a strong enthusiasm; eager:
a hot baseball fan.
- Slang.
- sexually aroused; lustful.
- sexy; attractive.
- violent, furious, or intense:
the hottest battle of the war.
- strong or fresh, as a scent or trail.
- absolutely new; fresh:
a dozen new mystery stories hot from the press.
- requiring immediate delivery or correspondence; demanding priority:
The hot freight must be delivered by 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, or we'll lose the contract.
- Slang. skillful in a reckless or daring way:
a hot pilot.
- following very closely; close:
to be hot on the trail of a thief.
- (of colors) extremely intense:
hot pink.
- Informal. popular and commercially successful; in demand; marketable:
The Beatles were a hot group in the 1960s.
- Slang. extremely lucky, good, or favorable:
A poker player has to have a hot hand to win the pot.
- Slang. (in sports and games) playing well or winningly; scoring effectively:
a hot pitcher.
- Slang. funny; absurd:
That's a hot one!
- Games. close to the object or answer that is being sought.
- Informal. extremely exciting or interesting; sensational or scandalous:
a hot news story.
- Jazz.
- (of music) emotionally intense, propulsive, and marked by aggressive attack and warm, full tone.
- (of a musician) skilled in playing hot jazz.
- Informal. (of a vehicle) capable of attaining extremely high speeds:
a hot new jet plane.
- Slang.
- stolen recently or otherwise illegal and dangerous to possess:
a hot diamond necklace.
- wanted by the police.
- Informal. in the mood to perform exceedingly well, or rapidly, as during a burst of creative work:
Finish writing that story while you're still hot.
- actively conducting an electric current or containing a high voltage:
a hot wire.
- of, relating to, or noting radioactivity.
- Metalworking. noting any process involving plastic deformation of a metal at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization due to the strain:
hot working.
adverb
- in a hot manner; hotly.
- while hot:
Garnish the potatoes with parsley and serve hot.
- Metalworking. at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization:
The wire was drawn hot.
verb (used with or without object)
- Chiefly British Informal. to heat; warm (usually followed by up ).
noun
- the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or attraction.
hot
/ hɒt /
adjective
- having a relatively high temperature
- having a temperature higher than desirable
- causing or having a sensation of bodily heat
- causing a burning sensation on the tongue
a hot curry
hot mustard
- expressing or feeling intense emotion, such as embarrassment, anger, or lust
- intense or vehement
a hot argument
- recent; fresh; new
a hot trial
hot from the press
- ball games (of a ball) thrown or struck hard, and so difficult to respond to
- much favoured or approved
a hot favourite
a hot tip
- informal.having a dangerously high level of radioactivity
a hot laboratory
- slang.(of goods or money) stolen, smuggled, or otherwise illegally obtained
- slang.(of people) being sought by the police
- informal.sexually attractive
- (of a colour) intense; striking
hot pink
- close or following closely
hot on the scent
- informal.at a dangerously high electric potential
a hot terminal
- physics having an energy level higher than that of the ground state
a hot atom
- slang.impressive or good of its kind (esp in the phrase not so hot )
- slang.jazz arousing great excitement or enthusiasm by inspired improvisation, strong rhythms, etc
- informal.dangerous or unpleasant (esp in the phrase make it hot for someone )
- (in various searching or guessing games) very near the answer or object to be found
- metallurgy (of a process) at a sufficiently high temperature for metal to be in a soft workable state
- informal.(of a price, charge, etc) excessive
- give it hot or give it to someone hotto punish or thrash someone
- hot on informal.
- very severe
the police are hot on drunk drivers
- particularly skilled at or knowledgeable about
he's hot on vintage cars
- hot under the collar informal.aroused with anger, annoyance, etc
- in hot water informal.in trouble, esp with those in authority
adverb
- in a hot manner; hotly
Derived Forms
- ˈhotly, adverb
- ˈhotness, noun
Other Words From
- hot·ly adverb
- hot·ness noun
- o·ver·hot adjective
- o·ver·hot·ly adverb
- ul·tra·hot adjective
- un·hot adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of hot1
Word History and Origins
Origin of hot1
Idioms and Phrases
- get hot, Slang. (in sports and games) to become very effective or successful; score or win repeatedly or easily.
- hot and bothered, Informal. excited, aroused, or flustered: Also all hot and bothered.
This mistake isn't worth getting hot and bothered about.
- hot and heavy, Informal. in an intense, vehement, or passionate manner:
They argued hot and heavy for 20 minutes.
- make it hot for, Informal. to make something unpleasant for; cause trouble for:
Ever since their argument the principal has been making it hot for the new teacher.
- hot under the collar. collar ( def 23 ).
More idioms and phrases containing hot
- blow hot and cold
- like a cat on hot bricks
- like hot cakes
- make it hot for
- piping hot
- strike while the iron's hot
Example Sentences
Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.
There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
Many Jewish women have been accepted as conventional, mainstream hot.
In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.
News came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.
From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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