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noun Photography.

a bracket on a camera body that provides support and electrical contact for an electronic flash attachment.

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Origin of hot shoe

First recorded in 1970–75

Words nearby hot shoe

hots, hot sauce, hot seat, hot seat, in the, hot shit, hot shoe, hot-short, hotshot, hot spot, hot spring, Hot Springs

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How to use hot shoe in a sentence

Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
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Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
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Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.
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There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
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Many Jewish women have been accepted as conventional, mainstream hot.
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
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“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
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Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.
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News came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.
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From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.
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British Dictionary definitions for hot shoe

hot shoe

noun

photog an accessory shoe on a camera through which electrical contact is made to an electronic flash device

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