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adjective, hot·ter, hot·test.

having or giving off oestrus; having a high temperature: a hot burn; hot coffee.

having or causing a sensation of great actual heat; attended with or producing such a sensation: He was hot with fever.

creating a burning sensation, as on the pare 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 fierce feeling; ardent; fervent; vehement; excited: a hot temper.

Informal. having a potent enthusiasm; eager: a hot baseball fan.

Slang.

1. sexually aroused; lustful.
2. 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; enervating priority: The hot freight must exist delivered past x:00 a.one thousand. 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.

Breezy. popular and commercially successful; in need; marketable: The Beatles were a hot group in the 1960s.

Slang. extremely lucky, adept, or favorable: A poker thespian has to have a hot hand to win the pot.

Slang. (in sports and games) playing well or winningly; scoring finer: a hot pitcher.

Slang. funny; absurd: That's a hot one!

Games. shut to the object or answer that is being sought.

Informal. extremely exciting or interesting; sensational or scandalous: a hot news story.

Jazz.

1. (of music) emotionally intense, propulsive, and marked by aggressive attack and warm, total tone.
2. (of a musician) skilled in playing hot jazz.

Breezy. (of a vehicle) capable of attaining extremely high speeds: a hot new jet plane.

Slang.

1. stolen recently or otherwise illegal and dangerous to possess: a hot diamond necklace.
2. wanted by the law.
3. unsafe.

Breezy. in the mood to perform exceedingly well, or rapidly, every bit during a burst of artistic work: Finish writing that story while you're nevertheless hot.

actively conducting an electric electric current or containing a high voltage: a hot wire.

of, relating to, or noting radioactive decay.

Metalworking. noting whatsoever procedure involving plastic deformation of a metallic 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 allow recrystallization: The wire was fatigued hot.

verb (used with or without object), hot·ted, hot·ting.

Chiefly British Informal. to oestrus; warm (usually followed by upwardly).

noun

the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or allure.

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Idioms about hot

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: This mistake isn't worth getting hot and bothered about. Also all hot and bothered.

hot and heavy, Informal. in an intense, vehement, or passionate fashion: They argued hot and heavy for twenty minutes.

make information technology hot for, Informal. to make something unpleasant for; cause trouble for: Ever since their statement the principal has been making it hot for the new teacher.

Origin of hot

before 1000; 1920–25 for def. 23; Centre English ho(o)t,Former English hāt; cognate with Dutch heet,Old Norse heitr,Swedish het,Danish hed,High german heiss

OTHER WORDS FROM hot

hotly, adverb hotness, noun o·ver·hot, adjective o·ver·hot·ly, adverb

ul·tra·hot, describing word un·hot, adjective

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Words related to hot

blazing, boiling, heated, humid, red, scorching, sizzling, sultry, sweltering, torrid, tropical, warm, white, sharp, spicy, fierce, intense, stormy, cool, fresh

How to use hot in a sentence

• Fill up your serving cups with hot h2o to keep them warm while you prepare the drink.

• Water changes states depending on its temperature—it evaporates when it's hot, goes back to its liquid state when it cools, and, of course, you've heard of ice.

• Leave the potatoes in the foil and tuck them into hot dress-down.

• Richard Nixon is president, bong-bottoms are a hot new look, and Simon & Garfunkel is playing on everyone's radios.

• During the interview, Filippi was preparing for a race on a searing-hot track in Berlin in the middle of a rut wave.

• The Vampire Diaries sets an unrealistic precedence for both magical creatures and teenage hotness in small boondocks America.

• On the testify, she was the epitome of Marilyn Monroe hotness, but subbed loud belches for breathy coos—and then laughed nearly it.

• Pair her hotness with her salty mouth, and she will make a great comic or host in the vein of Sarah Silverman or Jenny McCarthy.

• Unique Tool Her sheer hotness—and something chosen the Lean 30-Day Programme.

• Her hotness is diminished," the magazine says, "when she espouses dumb ideas like defunding Planned Parenthood.

• On very rare occasions he had described information technology in the eyes of his dark-eyed heroines, and never without a hotness in his own.

• And so a flurried toilet, and a difficult, for the homo especially; but hotness of desire breeds dexterity.

• The air was pleasantly cool hither, and had lost the dead hotness that brooded over the higher ground.

• Then the sensation of hotness began again and increased until Burl'southward skin was reddened and inflamed.

• There was something distasteful to him almost the naked, raw hotness of a newly-lighted cigar-tip.

British Dictionary definitions for hot

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adjective hotter or hottest

having a relatively high temperature

having a temperature college than desirable

causing or having a awareness of actual heat

causing a called-for awareness on the tongue hot mustard; a hot curry

expressing or feeling intense emotion, such every bit embarrassment, acrimony, or animalism

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 then difficult to answer to

much favoured or approved a hot tip; a hot favourite

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 pinkish

close or post-obit 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 basis state a hot atom

slang impressive or good of its kind (esp in the phrase not so hot)

jazz slang arousing great excitement or enthusiasm by inspired improvisation, strong rhythms, etc

informal unsafe or unpleasant (esp in the phrase make it hot for someone)

(in various searching or guessing games) very nearly the respond or object to be found

metallurgy (of a process) at a sufficiently loftier temperature for metallic to exist in a soft workable country

Australian and NZ breezy (of a toll, charge, etc) excessive

give it hot or give it to someone hot to punish or thrash someone

hot on informal

1. very severe the police are hot on boozer drivers
2. particularly skilled at or knowledgeable nigh he's hot on vintage cars

hot nether the collar informal aroused with acrimony, annoyance, etc

in hot water breezy in problem, esp with those in potency

adverb

Derived forms of hot

hotly, adverb hotness, noun

Give-and-take Origin for hot

Old English language hāt; related to Old High German language heiz, Old Norse heitr, Gothic heito fever

Collins English Dictionary - Consummate & Entire 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with hot

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In improver to the idioms beginning with hot

• hot air
• hot and bothered
• hot and heavy
• hot as blazes
• hot dog
• hot line
• hot number
• hot off the press
• hot on
• hot potato
• hot rod
• hot seat, in the
• hot stuff
• hot to trot
• hot nether the collar
• hot water

also see:

• blow hot and cold
• like a cat on hot bricks
• like hot cakes
• make information technology hot for
• pipage hot
• strike while the fe's hot

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