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▪ I. hot, hott, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.|hɒt|
[a. OF. hotte a pannier or creel, supposed to be of Ger. origin: cf. Ger. hotte, Swiss hutte a vintager's dorser, a tub or basket carried on the back. (See also hod n.1) Sense 3 is possibly a different word.]
1. A kind of basket or pannier for carrying earth, sand, lime, manure, etc. north. dial.
a1300Cursor M. 5524 Apon þer neckes sal þai bere Hott wit stan and wit morter. c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 850 Twigges..Swiche as men..maken of these paniers, Or elles hottes or dossers. 1434–5Durham MS. Almoner's Roll, j par de hottys pro sabulo et luto cariand. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 109 a/2 And bare on hys sholders vii hottis or baskettis fulle of erthe. 1661Wit & Drollery 74 Ise lay down my hot. 1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves Gloss. (E.D.S.), Hots, a sort of panniers to carry turf or slate in. 1825Brockett, Hot, a sort of square basket formerly used for taking manure into fields of steep ascent. 1878Cumberld. Gloss., Muck hots..panniers for conveying manure on horseback.
2. A small heap (e.g. of dung, dust, sand, etc.). Sc. and north. dial.
a1800Song in Edinb. Month. Mag. (1817) June 238 There was..An hunder hotts o' muck to spread. 1822Hogg Perils of Man II. vii. 255 Will then laid his arm over the boy and the hott o' claes, and fell sound asleep. 1841Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. II. i. 126 The field..was left by the cattle in tufts or hots not eaten regularly off. 1878Cumberld. Gloss., Muck hots..(N.E.) heaps of muck or lime in the field.
†3. (Also hut(t.) A padded sheath for the spur of a fighting cock. Obs.
1615Markham Pleas. Princes (1635) 48 Hots are soft bumbasted roules of Leather, covering their Spurs, so that they cannot hurt or bruise one another. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch. To Rdr. 92 Hee without Cloake Is a Witt in Hutts, a pretty spurringe Cocke. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. xi. 252/2 Hotts or Hutts, are the Pounces or round Balls of Leather stuffed and clapped or tied on the sharp end of the Spurs, to keep Cocks that they shall not hurt one another in sparing, or breathing themselves. 1806Sporting Mag. XXVII. 140 Cover your Cock's heels with hots made of leather.
▪ II. hot, a. (n.2)|hɒt|
Forms: α. 1 hát, 2–4 hat, (4–5 north. hatt(e, hate); 5 hayt, 5–6 hait, 6 haet, heit. β. 2– hot; 4–6 hoot, -e, 4–7 hote, 6 hoat(e, 6–7 hott(e. γ. 5–6 whote, whoot(e, 6 whot, whott(e, whoat(e, woght. compar. 1 hattra, 2–3 hattre, hattere, hatere, 3 hatture, 3–4 hattore, 4– hotter. superl. 1 hattost, 3–7 hotest, 4– hottest.
[Com. Teut.: OE. hát, corresp. to OFris., OS. hêt (MDu., Du. heet, LG. hêt), OHG. (MHG.) heiȥ (Ger. heisz), ON. heitr:—OTeut. *haito-z, f. ablaut-stem hit-, hît-, hait-, whence also Goth. heitô fever, and OE. hǽtu heat. The normal phonetic representatives of OE. hát were ME. northern hāt (hate, hait), southern hôt (hote, hoot, hoat); the former came down to 16th, the latter to 17th c.; but as early as 1550 we find the shortened hot, hott. This was app. taken from the inflected comparative, OE. hátra, later hattre, found as late as 1400 as hatter, beside which hotter shortened from hôter is found in 14th c. (cf. out, utter, late, latter). The forms in wh are parallel to those of whole.
The phonology of hot in the dialects presents many points of difficulty. Cf. het.]
1. The proper adjective expressing a well-known quality or condition of material bodies, due to a high degree of the molecular energy known as heat (heat n. 1, 2), and producing one of the primary sensations (heat n. 1 b); having or communicating much heat; of or at a high temperature: the opposite of cold. (Distinguished from warm by the high degree of this quality.)
a. Of the sun, the air, and atmospheric conditions.
c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 228 Ðeos wyrt..byþ cenned neah sæ and on hatum stowum. Ibid. III. 280 Swa hattra sumor, swa mara ðunor and liᵹet. c1250Old Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 35 At middai wanne þo dai is al þer hotestd. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 10960 Þut somer so druye & so hot, Þat..none hattore me not. a1300Cursor M. 2703 Quen it was hate [later MSS. hat, hoot] a-pon a tide Abram satt his hus be side. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Ninian 564 It wes hate [rime gate]. c1440Partonope 2141 The day was whote and longe. 1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 34 b, The wether was hoat. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts 331 In an hote scorching season. 1653Walton Angler iv. 118 In a hot day, but especially in the evening of a hot day. 1727Swift Gulliver iii. i, The sun so hot, that I was forced to turn my face from it. 1833C. Sturt S. Austral. II. iii. 66 The hot winds in the interior.
b. Of fire, or anything burning or glowing.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 124 Stæppe on hat col, cele mid wætre; stæppe on swa hat swa hatost mæᵹe. c1200Vices & Virtues 63 On ðe wallende brene of ðe hote fiere. c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 402 The fir was ouer hoot [v.rr. hot, hote]. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon vi. 136 Whan the yron is well hoote, hit werketh the better. 1598Epulario B iv b, Almonds scorched on whote embers. 1772H. Brooke Redempt. (R.), The Sun himself [shall] consume with hotter fire. 1819Shelley Prometh. Unb. 1. 532 From the furnace, white and hot.
c. Of material objects in general (as affected by the sun, fire, chemical action, the vital heat of animals, subterranean heat, etc.).
a1000Guthlac 1055 in Exeter Bk., He hate let torn þoliende tearas geotan. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 83 Ne wepeð none hote teres. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 360/53 Seoth it to-gadere..and leie it al hot þar-to. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2243 Hote bathe he dide make. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iv. vii. (1495) 91 Blode is hotter in the ryght syde..strengthe of hote blode is in the ryght syde. c1440Promp. Parv. 249/1 Hoott bathe, murtetum. 1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 25 Little potte soone whot. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. xiv. §105 This place is famous for its hot baths. 1744Berkeley Siris §221 A body heated so hot as to emit light. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xxiii. 351 When the water..is as hot as the hand can bear.
d. Of food or drink prepared with the aid of fire, and served before it becomes cool. Cf. hot and hot 11 b.
a1300Land Cokayne 104 in E.E.P. (1862) 159 ‘Gees al hote, al hot.’ 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. Prol. 104 Cookes and heore knaues cryen ‘hote pies, hote!’ c1430Two Cookery-bks. 12 Serue forth alle hote as tostes. 1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 4 To take no more drynke neither hote nor colde. 1687Wood Life 5 Sept. (O.H.S.) III. 235 Three hot dishes, which he fed upon. 1853A. Soyer Pantroph. 290 A kind of cake..designated hot-cross-bun. 1896Daily News 2 Jan. 5/7 Nothing is eaten as hot as it is boiled.
e. At a high voltage, ‘live’. Esp. in U.S. slang phrs. hot chair, hot seat, hot squat, the electric chair.
1925Sat. Even. Post 29 Aug. 18/3 A judge sentenced a boy fifteen years old to the electric chair... A newspaper reporter said he heard the lad announce that he was not afraid to die ‘in the hot seat’. 1927Flynn's Weekly 1 Jan. 819/1, I never shot nobody... Lotsa times I don't carry a gun. That's one thing I try to dodge—the hot chair. 1928J. P. McEvoy Showgirl xii. 180, I ought to get something for that don't you think? The chair maybe—better known as the hot squat. 1930Sel. Gloss. Motion Pict. Techn. (Acad. Motion Pict., Hollywood), Hot, electrically charged, particularly when dangerous. 1937Printers' Ink Monthly Apr. 54/2 Hot mike, a microphone in which the current is flowing. A live microphone. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 424/1 Hot, said of a conductor which is charged to a dangerously high potential. Colloquial. 1944‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Puppets ix. 74 When they get me on to the hot seat, I won't even burn. 1952R. Chandler Let. 11 Jan. in R. Chandler Speaking (1966) 128 That scene at the end where the girl visits him in the condemned cell a few hours before he gets the hot squat!
2. a. Of a person or animal: Having the sensation of heat (in a high degree). Usually in predicate.
c1400Rom. Rose 2396 Thou shalt no while be in oo state, But whilom colde & whilom hate. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 15 There must be heede taken, that they drinke not when they be hotte. 1595Shakes. John iv. iii. 74 Lords, I am hot with haste, in seeking you. 1698Froger Voy. 10 'Tis very pleasant to drink when one is hot. 1880A. Raleigh Way to City 105 He is weary like other men and hungry and hot.
b. Of bodily conditions or affections producing or accompanied by this sensation, as fevers, etc.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) M vij, He was vexed with hote feuers. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa i. 52 Taken with an hot and a cold fit of an ague. 1702J. Purcell Cholick (1714) 101 Violent Hot Pains in the Lower-Belly. 1882Century Mag. XXV. 103/2 The girl acknowledged his salute by a hot blush.
3. transf. Having to do with things that are hot; associated with heat. rare.
1658J. Jones Ovid's Ibis 34 Brewers, Bakers, Smiths, and such hot artificers. 1876L. Morris Epic Hades i. 3 The hot noise of bees.
4. In the physiology of the Middle Ages, expressing one of the fundamental qualities of humours, elements, planets, and bodies in general: see cold a. 6. (Often passing into 5.) Now in astrological usage.
c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 284 Ðeos wyrt..hys ᵹecynde is swiþe hat. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 53 Norþeren men, in þe whiche colde..makeþ hem fatter, gretter, and whitter and hatter with inne. 1398― Barth. De P.R. xix. xxvi. [xxxviii.] (Bodl. MS.), Alle þinges wiþ odoure is accounted hote amonge Auctours as..vinegre, caumfer and rose. 1460–70Bk. Quintessence 2 Oure quinta essencia..is not hoot and drie wiþ fier, ne coold and moist wiþ watir, ne hoot and moist with eyr, ne coold and drie wiþ erþe. 1551Turner Herbal i. A v a, Pontike Wormwoode is hote in the first degree and drye in the thirde. 1578Lyte Dodoens vi. lxxxiii. 765 The liquor Cedria..is almost whoate in the fourth degree. 1599H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner N vij b, Pepper..Hurtful to hot constitutions. 1670W. Clarke Nitre 52 It is..controverted whether Nitre be cold or hot. 1819J. Wilson Dict. Astrol. 268 Aries..is a vernal, hot, dry, fiery, cardinal,..fortunate, hoarse, bitter sign. 1889R. Baughan Influence of Stars 12 Aries..is a hot and fiery sign, and produces a lean body. 1909Kipling Rewards & Fairies (1910) 257 Between Mars and Luna, the one red, t' other white, the one hot, t' other cold.., stands..a natural antipathy.
5. a. Producing an effect as of heat or burning, esp. on the nerves of taste or the mucous membrane; pungent, acrid, biting; corrosive; heating, ardent.
1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 18 The Englishemen..dranke hote wynes in the hote wether, and did eate all the hote frutes..that there fell sicke [etc.]. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. iii. 25 The Mustard is too hot a little. 1600― A.Y.L. ii. iii. 49, I neuer did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my bloud. 1702J. Purcell Cholick (1714) 171 We may..give Hotter Remedies in this, than in any other Cholicks. 1806A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 166 The dish is..too hot of pepper. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 488 Camphor [has] a strong hot acrid taste.
b. Affected with this sensation. rare.
1870H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) §45 While the palate is still hot with a curry, an unflavoured dish seems insipid.
6. transf. Excited (this being naturally accompanied by a sensible increase of temperature).
a. Having or showing intensity of feeling; fervent, ardent, passionate, enthusiastic, eager, keen, zealous. (Of persons, their affections, actions, etc.) Freq. const. for or on (= keen on, eager for), or with inf. With negative construction: unsuccessful, not good or skilful.
971Blickl. Hom. 225 Wæs him..seo Godes lufu toðæs hat and toðæs beorht on his heortan. c1200Ormin 15580 Hat lufe towarrd Godess hus. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 119 He..makede hem hattere on soðe luue to gode and to men. a1225Ancr. R. 400 Forði þet tu ert..nouðer cold ne hot..ich chulle speouwen þe ut, bute ȝif þu i-wurðe hattre. c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 956 (1012) Hotter wex his loue. c1470Henry Wallace v. 834 Hardy and hat contenyt the fell melle. a1553Udall Royster D. i. i. (Arb.) 12 In all the hotte haste must she be hys wife. 1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 14, I..was then whottist at mi book when the rest were hardist at their cards. c1620A. Hume Brit. Tongue (1865) 18 Ther rease..a hoat disputation betuene him and me. 1667Pepys Diary 12 July, The Duke of York..is hot for it. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Pope Wks. IV. 15 Her desires were too hot for delay. 1844Disraeli Coningsby vi. ii, In the days of his hot youth. 1862[see dusty a. 4 d]. 1865G. Meredith Let. ?8 Dec. (1970) I. 320, I am very hot upon Vittoria. Lewes says it must be a success. 1870Bryant Iliad II. xv. 107 The foe poured after them In hot pursuit. a1877Swinburne Lesbia Brandon (1952) iii. 75 He was always rather hot upon that song. 1897Bookman Jan. 119/1 He was..a hot patriot in '70. 1924P. Marks Plastic Age xi. 112, I didn't flunk out but my record isn't so hot. 1925T. E. Lawrence Let. 7 Sept. (1938) 485 The Squadron Leader is hot on punishment. 1932Blue Valley Farmer (Okla. City) 28 Jan. 2/3 For president he's not so hot. Business won't support him. 1934J. M. Cain Postman always rings Twice vi. 57 He was all hot to show me something. 1934N. Coward Play Parade I. p. x, It..established me both as a playwright and as an actor... Until then I had not proved myself to be so hot in either capacity. 1937‘J. Bell’ Murder in Hospital vii. 133 They're quite hot on First-Aid at these race tracks and he had a tourniquet on. 1937Tablet 23 Oct. 553/2 Reviewed long ago with hot delight. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues 375 Hot for, enthusiastic about, in favor of. 1952Manch. Guardian Weekly 8 May 5/4 American radio listener, hot for news and excitement, leans forward. 1960S. Kauffmann If it be Love ii. i. 121 He's very hot on the Babbage Square move. He thinks it's a good idea. 1967R. Rendell New Lease of Death ii. 22 The Victorians..were not too hot on design. 1969D. Gray Murder on Honeymoon xix. 118 Bryce was very hot on never having a drink in the bar.
b. Excited with anger; angry, wrathful, ‘in a passion’; rarely, of a wrathful disposition, violent-tempered, passionate.
a1225Leg. Kath. 2147 He..het, on hat heorte, unhende⁓liche neomen hire. 1390Gower Conf. III. 148 Whan he was hottest in his ire. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 19 The eldest chidde with the knight that plaied with her, and gaue hym angri, hasti, and hote langage. 1535Coverdale Gen. xxxi. 36 What haue I trespassed or offended yt thou art so whote upon me? 1590Shakes. Com. Err. i. ii. 47 She is so hot because the meate is colde. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 112 Come man be not so hot, here is none but Friends. 1784Cowper Task ii. 179 God proclaims His hot displeasure. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 113 Men of hot temper and strong prejudices. a1863Thackeray D. Duval i, He had parted, after some hot words..from his mother. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. i. 23 Donati was a hot and arrogant noble.
c. Excited with sexual desire; lustful; of animals, ‘in heat’ (see heat n. 13). Also of a play, book, etc.: licentious. Phr. (U.S. slang) to have (or get) hot pants, to be (or become) aroused with sexual desire. Also, hot pants, a highly sexed (young) woman. Cf. senses 10 b and 12 c.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xiii. 52 Thair cumis ȝung monkis..And in the courte thair hait flesche dantis. c15111st Eng. Bk. Amer. (Arb.) Introd. 27 Very hoote and dyposed to lecherdnes. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 403 Were they as prime as Goates, as hot as Monkeyes. 1797Phil. Trans. LXXXVII. 199, I took a female rabbit, hot, (as the feeders term it) that is, ready to be impregnated. 1892E. J. Milliken 'Arry Ballads 37 As most of our plays are now cribbed from the French, wy they're all pooty 'ot. 1898J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 31 She was a 'an'some gal, was Daisy..but..she wos a fair scorcher, jist abart as 'ot as they make 'em. 1908Daily Chron. 22 June 6/5 Publishing firms..discovered that money was to be made out of what they called ‘the hot novel’. 1927K. Nicholson Barker ii. ii. 112 When you had him all hot pants you married him. 1933D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise viii. 148 He said to Mr. Tallboy he thought the headline was a bit hot. And Mr. Tallboy said he had a nasty mind. 1935J. T. Farrell Judgement Day xvi. 383 A burlesque show. The hottest ones were south of Van Buren. 1936J. Steinbeck In Dubious Battle 64 Every time the sun shines on my back all afternoon I get hot pants. 1961S. Price Just for Record v. 36 You've got the hot-pants for some good⁓looking piece. 1963M. McCarthy Group iii. 48 I've still got hot pants for her, if you want to call that love. 1963L. Meynell Virgin Luck ii. 30, I was just a hot little bit throwing myself at the head of the nearest presentable male. 1966C. Robertson Judas Spies iii. 31 His second wife, this blonde hot pants. 1968K. Amis I want it Now i. 39 It would help to hold off little hot-pants, and might distract him from the thought of what he was so very soon going to be doing to her. 1968O. Wynd Sumatra Seven Zero x. 159 ‘You ought to marry.’ ‘That can wait. I haven't got as hot pants as I look.’ 1971W. Hanley Blue Dreams xiii. 221 ‘I'm hot as a firecracker is what I am,’ she said demurely.
d. Of an action: exceptionally good or fine. Of a person: exceptionally smart or skilled or successful (in some action or kind of work). Of dice, cards, etc.: unusually lucky or successful.
1895S. Crane Red Badge of Courage xvii. 169 ‘Hot work!’ cried the lieutenant deliriously. 1914Daily Express 30 Nov. 5/7 The Deutsches have some pretty hot snipers. 1919A. A. Milne First Plays 44 He did the ninth [hole in golf] in three... How's that for hot? 1934J. T. Farrell Young Manhood iv. 61 I'm shakin' fair, brother. They're just hot for me this time. The dice get hot for a guy like this maybe once in his whole life. 1944D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte (1946) 101 Here is Big Nig hotter than a stove, and here I am without a bob to follow him with... Nig can make sixes all night when he is hot. 1968Surfer IX. 63 Cabell is really ripping it up in Hawaii now, too, but Young and McTavish are so hot it's unbelievable. 1970Surf '70 (N.Z.) 17/3 Walsh is not the only hot surfer in New Plymouth.
7. a. Attended with feverish or violent exertion, suffering, discomfort, or danger; intense, violent; raging, severe, sharp, keen. (Chiefly of conflict or the like; formerly also of pestilence or epidemics.)
a1000Guthlac 979 in Exeter Bk. 57 Wæs seo adl þearl, hat, and heoro-grim. a1000Phœnix 613 ibid. 64 b, Hungor se hata. c1000Andreas 1544 (Grein) Hatan heaðo⁓wælme. c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1601 (1650), I hadde it neuere half so hote as now. c1400Destr. Troy 9377 Hongur full hote harmyt hom þen. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John 21 b, The feast was at the hottest. 1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. i. (1586) 7 Vices, which began to growe hot in the Cities. 1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 19 Great skirmishes and encounters that have been verie hot. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 587 The Plague is sometime so hotte at Cairo, that there die twelve thousand Persons dayly. 1683Wood Life (O.H.S.) III. 67 Small pox hot and frequent in Oxon. 1709Steele Tatler No. 80 ⁋9 The Fire of Bombs and Grenades..was so hot, that the Enemy quitted their Post. 1722De Foe Plague (1884) 161 The Plague grows hot in the City. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. I. 381 In the hottest of the fight.
b. transf. Said of a place, position, etc. in which intense action of some kind is going on, or in which one suffers severe discomfort.
1855Cornwall 250 As to the ‘hot-lode’ at the United Mines..the discovery of which sent up shares from {pstlg}40 to {pstlg}450 each—both the heat of the lode and the ardour of the shareholders have considerably declined, and so have the shares. 1872W. F. Butler Gt. Lone Land xx. (1878) 318, I have been compelled to seek my sport in hot climates instead of in hot corners. 1892Daily News 15 Feb. 6/2, I have seen many roaring camps; they are hot places, when men lose their money at the gambling-tables and when the bullets begin to fly about. 1896Tablet 22 Feb. 291 We got into as hot a corner as a lot of men ever got into.
c. Of a ball: hit or thrown hard, and difficult for the other side to deal with.
1867Ball Players' Chron. 6 June 3/4 The hot one he sent to pitcher. 1868H. Chadwick Game of Base Ball 41 Hot Balls. This term is applied to balls sent very swiftly to the hands from the bat, or thrown in swiftly. 1882Australians in Eng. 37 Lockwood gave Murdoch a hot chance at point. 1886F. H. Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy (1887) vi. 122 He..gave a dramatic description of a wonderful ‘hot ball’ he had seen caught. 1917C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan 125 The players..had not handled a ball since the summer before and the ‘hot ones’ made them wince and yell.
d. Associated with or affected by a trade-union dispute. orig. U.S.
1901Denver Republican 19 Aug. 1/1 (headline) Non⁓union men invading ‘hot’ section. 1940F. Riesenberg Golden Gate 312 Docks had become dangerously congested, for the teamsters joined with the I.L.A., refusing to haul ‘hot cargo’. 1947Seafarers Log 25 Apr. 13/2 Officers would no longer go through a picket line to move a hot ship. 1959Economist 2 May 423/2 ‘Hot cargo’ clauses in transportation contracts, under which a lorry-owner agrees not to handle freight coming from another employer with whom the union has a dispute.
e. Of stolen property: easily identifiable and so difficult to dispose of. In extended use: stolen. Also applied to a person wanted by the police.
1925Collier's 8 Aug. 30/2 Stolen bonds are ‘hot paper’; stolen diamonds ‘hot ice’. 1926[see hock-shop s.v. hock n.7 b]. 1931Amer. Speech VII. 109 Hot car hustler, car thief. 1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route 207 A person is hot when he is wanted by the law. No hobo will travel with a man who is hot. 1942M. Schlauch Gift of Tongues (1943) 269 Jewels become ‘ice’, and stolen jewels..‘hot ice’. 1943P. Cheyney You can always Duck ix. 151 Look, I'm hot, see? The cops here are after me. 1943R. Chandler Lady in Lake (1944) xi. 64 The best stunt would be to unload it on a hot car dealer. 1953W. Burroughs Junkie (1972) iii. 36 Herman pulled out a silk dress he had under his coat—as I recall somebody unloaded a batch of hot dresses on us for three grains of morphine. 1958‘A. Gilbert’ Death against Clock 70 It [sc. a stolen brooch] was too hot to touch at present. 1960H. L. Lawrence Children of Light ii. 34 You come here, in a hot car... And the police know. 1969Times 4 July 3/8 Many stolen works of art have been recovered recently..which suggests that thieves are finding them too hot to handle. 1973P. Moyes Curious Affair of Third Dog xv. 207 Griselda was ‘hot’. Griselda had to disappear.
f. Of a motor vehicle or aircraft: fast or powerful (esp. in relation to size). colloq. Cf. hot rod.
[1924T. E. Lawrence Let. 20 Feb. (1938) 456 Hot speed on a motor-bike.] 1944Sat. Even. Post 24 June 80/2 PV's can outrun all but the fastest of Jap fighters, but they pay for their speed by landing hot. 1951N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Oct. 59/2 Certainly, the pure jet does land a little ‘hotter’ than the propeller plane. 1966T. Wisdom High-Performance Driving ii. 31 Small ‘hot’ machines like a Mini Cooper and a Renault Gordini. 1968Hot Car Nov. 7 It was a ‘hot little car’.
8. Technical uses.
a. Hunting. Of the scent: Strong, intense; opp. to cold a. 12. to get (or be) hot: in a game or pursuit, to come (or be) near the discovery of something concealed. Also transf.
Hence, in nursery and parlour games which involve searching or guessing on the part of some of the players, hot means close on the track of the object hidden or the solution to be guessed.
1648Milton Tenure Kings (1650) 60 Hungrie Church⁓wolves following the hot sent of double Livings. 1781W. Blane Ess. Hunt. (1788) 111 The scent lying hotter, and encreasing. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 5 He could halloo them off the hottest scent that ever lay on Warwickshire grass. 1876[see cold a. 12 b]. 1879Tourgee Fool's Err. xliv. 326 A pack of hounds running on a hot trail. 1882Cassell's Bk. In-Door Amusem. (ed. 2) 29 The progress of the player is usually announced by assuring him that he is ‘very cold’, ‘cold’, ‘warmer’, ‘warm’, ‘hot’, ‘very hot’, or ‘burning’, according as he is far from or near to the article to be discovered. 1899E. W. Hornung Amat. Cracksman 252 ‘Not there, not there,’ said Raffles; ‘but you're getting hot. Try the cartridges.’ 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Oct. 832/4 He needs it [sc. personality] to act quickly and effectively when an appliance fails, or when an investigator gets ‘hot’.
b. Of a colour: intense, vivid, glowing.
1896Sir E. M. Thompson in Proc. Soc. Antiq. 221 The colours employed are vivid, sometimes even rather hot. 1933Burlington Mag. Apr. 176/2 De Vos had long admired Rubens and emulated his hot tones. 1958Vogue Mid-Sept. (Extra Issue) 87 Hot pink velour hat. 1962Harper's Bazaar Oct. 124/3 A new hot orange lipstick. 1967D. Francis Blood Sport xii. 144 A..hot pink-orange tunic.
c. Dry and absorbent of moisture.
1883in Spon Workshop Receipts Ser. ii. 252/2 If the ceiling is ‘hot’—i.e. porous, and soaks in the moisture very quickly.
d. In constant use or action; figured as heated by friction, etc.
1888Harper's Mag. Oct. 679/2 The New York and Washington wire is kept ‘hot’ for eight hours every night.
e. Racing slang. Said of a ‘favourite’ on which the betting is specially keen.
1894Daily News 4 June 4/1 The possessor of one of the hottest favourites on record.
f. Metallurgy and Founding. Of metal, esp. iron: completely fluid; sufficiently above the melting point to flow readily (see also quots. 1904, 19081). So hot-metal, in the sense ‘molten iron’, is used attrib., as in hot-metal process, a steel-making process in which the charge consists wholly or chiefly of molten iron. (See also hot metal in sense 12 c below.)
1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 182 Hot metal. Molten iron and brass are said to be hot when their temperature is higher than that required for the class of work for which they are intended. 1902G. R. Bale Mod. Iron Foundry Pract. I. x. 177 In pouring..the metal should be run ‘hot’.., for when the metal is poured ‘dull’..it is too sluggish to expel its gases. 1904Goodchild & Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 291/1 Metal of any kind is said to be ‘hot’ when it is at a temperature sufficiently high for some definite operation to be carried out. Thus a smith may say iron is hot when it is just at a welding or a forging heat. 1908B. Stoughton Metall. Iron & Steel ii. 37 The term ‘hot iron’ has come to be synonymous in the minds of blast-furnace foremen with iron high in silicon and low in sulphur. Ibid. xiii. 361 When I say ‘hot iron’ here, I mean ‘fluid iron’, i.e., the degree of heat above the melting-point. 1929C. R. Hayward Outl. Metall. Pract. xxii. 463 (caption) Hot-metal mixer at South Chicago... A ladle supported by a crane is delivering metal. 1946Firth Brown Gloss. Metall. Terms 11 In the hot-metal process, iron from the blast furnace goes through the mixer to the open hearth furnace, and constitutes 75% or more of the charge. 1951G. R. Bashforth Manuf. Iron & Steel II. xii. 356 The cupola metal replaces the molten pig iron employed in the hot-metal open-hearth process. 1966J. D. Sharp Elem. Steelmaking Pract. viii. 160 Ore, if used, is normally placed directly on top of the lime, or fed to the furnace immediately after the hot metal.
g. orig. U.S. Applied to jazz or highly elaborated and florid dance music with a marked beat and strong emotional appeal, freq. improvised; also to the performer or to the place where played and in other uses; opp. cool a. 4 d; hot lick (see lick n. 7).
1924Variety 9 July 9/3 The style in vaudeville jazz bands this coming season will tend toward the ‘sweet’ and ‘hot’ dance orchestras. Ibid. 24 Sept. 26-c/1 Leon Beiderbecke is a ‘hot’ trumpet. Ibid. 26-c/2 The boys step on it and get ‘hot’ at various intervals. 1926[see chorus n. 6 c]. 1927Dancing Times Apr. 117 We are in the days of the ‘hot’ chorus. Ibid. May 149 ‘Hot Music’ is still so much in its infancy over here that I do not propose to deal fully with it for the moment. 1927Melody Maker June 531/3 A rendering from an orchestration or an extemporisation made in this way is usually termed..‘hot’, the word ‘hot’ being intended to convey lilting, dance-inspiring rhythm with the accents irregularly placed but strongly portrayed, modern, or as some call them, extreme harmonies, and phrases based on these harmonies worked round the melody. 1928Gramophone VI. 300/2 It is not a question of ‘hot’ dance music or ‘straight’ dance music. 1933Fortune Aug. 47/1 Continuing in the language of jazz, it may be explained that Lawrence Brown is a hot trombonist with Duke Ellington's famous Negro jazz orchestra. That is to say, he excels in spontaneous, highly syncopated solos. 1933Punch 18 Oct. 441/3 Miss Elizabeth Welch, a coloured lady,..sings what is known as a hot jazz song about Solomon in a startling but rather fascinating way. 1934[see chorus n. 6 c]. 1935Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 38/3 Hot artists often escape from the routine of their commercial work to the night clubs of Harlem. Ibid., These are the only truly hot bands. 1938Oxf. Compan. Mus. 777/2 Louis Armstrong (claimed by one of his admirers as ‘certainly the greatest of all hot musicians..’). 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues xi. 195 Hugues [Panassié]..sure kept himself busy.., launching the Hot Clubs of France. 1947[see beat v.1 30 d]. 1947Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 40 Emble did likewise but his choice was a hot number. 1949F. Maclean Eastern Approaches i. vi. 78 In the station buffet an extremely ‘hot’ band with a good sense of rhythm played fairly recent jazz from New York. 1953J. G. Moore Relig. Jamaican Negroes 126 Hot, said of drums at Cumina ceremony when the fast rim beat indicates the presence of zombies in the drum. 1956H. Lyttelton in S. Traill Play that Music 79 Shall it be a trumpet or a cornet? I have no strong views either way—a good ‘hot’ style can be achieved on either instrument. Ibid. 84 ‘Hot’ tone cannot be defined on paper... It can be heard in essence in the playing of Bunk Johnson, Tommy Ladnier..and Louis Armstrong. Ibid. 85 Vibrato plays an important part in hot jazz, being used as a means of expression. 1970P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 31 The idea of ‘hot rhythm’ is one which Richard A. Waterman borrowed from jazz and applied to African drumming.
h. Of a Treasury bill: newly issued.
1928Evening News 18 Aug. 11/6 The hot Treasuries were offered at 4 3-16 per cent., without finding buyers. 1929Times 16 Nov. 18/1 The ‘hot’ Treasury Bills were dealt in at 5 13-32 per cent. 1929Observer 17 Nov. 3/3 ‘Hot’ bills yesterday morning changed hands in very small amounts at 5 5-16 per cent. 1959Times 15 Sept. 17/5 ‘Hot’ bills were again sold to the clearing banks.
i. Radioactive; esp. so radioactive as to be dangerous; so hot laboratory, a laboratory designed for the safe handling of highly radioactive material; also hot atom, an atom that has high kinetic or internal energy as a result of a nuclear process.
1942Pollard & Davidson Appl. Nucl. Physics vii. 139 Almost all the ‘hot’ sodium was in the form of NaOH. 1945H. D. Smyth Gen. Acct. Devel. Atomic Energy Mil. Purposes viii. 84 Later a ‘hot laboratory’, i.e., a laboratory for remotely-controlled work on highly radioactive material, was provided. 1946Sci. News Let. 10 Aug. 84/1 A large part of Bikini lagoon remained..‘hot’ with radioactivity. 1947Time 10 Nov. 82/2 ‘Hot’ (radioactive) atoms have already caused plenty of trouble in laboratories. 1950Sci. Amer. Mar. 44/3 The bizarre chemical effects sometimes produced by radioactive atoms have given rise to a fascinating new branch of investigation known as hot atom chemistry. Ibid. 47/1 The immense recoil energy of the hot carbon atoms will effect chemical reactions that would not ordinarily occur. 1955Times 12 Aug. 6/4 The elaborate precautions needed in so-called ‘hot’ laboratories—those in which large quantities of radioactive materials are manipulated. 1955Sci. News Let. 27 Aug. 134/3 At Hanford atomically ‘hot’ strontium is kept in large tanks until it cools down. 1958H. Etherington Nuclear Engin. Handbk. vii. 48 The building arrangement should be such that one cannot pass from a hot to a ‘cold’ area without going through a clothing-change facility. 1964M. Gowing Britain & Atomic Energy x. 286 The new laboratories at Chalk River..included a ‘hot’ laboratory for remote handling. 1972Nature 25 Feb. 443/1 The Mössbauer effect has been used to elucidate..hot atom effects, nuclear lifetimes, [etc.].
9. a. That has not had time to cool down or grow stale or unexciting; fresh, recent: said esp. of acts; also of a person fresh from such an act.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8627 Wyþ þe dom al hot, Hengistes heued of he smot. 1513Douglas æneis xiii. iv. 45 Turnus be his hait and recent deid [= death] Had wyth his blude littit the grond al reid. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 246 Which murther being discovered, whilest it was hot, made the Citizens take Arms. 1887Hall Caine Deemster xxii. 142 The horrible thought that he..was going, hot and unprepared, to an everlasting hell.
b. Of news: sensational, striking, exciting. Phr. hot from (or off) the press: just printed.
In quot. 19452 a fanciful use.
1908[see headline 2 d]. 1914Daily Express 30 Sept. 4/5 ‘Hot news’..must be provided for the people, and thus we learn from the Vienna ‘Abendblatt’ that General French is a prisoner. 1945Koestler Twilight Bar i. 34 News? You bet it is news... Hot? You bet it is hot. 1945Tee Emm (Air Ministry) V. 52 The gen it contains is hot from the griddle. 1955Times 19 Aug. 2/5 But it is for novelties, hot from the press or the copyist's desk, that discontent is calling. 1958New Statesman 3 May 557/2 Television: Curran comments that to this the response of the American press (as it is to some extent that of the British press) is to leave aside all but the hottest news because radio and television can cover it with more actuality and immediacy and to concentrate instead on..personalities. 1969Times 5 July 8/6 There has just arrived hot off the..presses a new publication called The Open Secret.
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a. absol. as n. Hot condition, heat. Obs.
c1200Ormin 3734 Wiþþ hat & kald, wiþþ nesshe & harrd. 1340Ayenb. 139 He soffreþ and honger an þorst, and chald and hot. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. iii. (Bodl. MS.), Hoote and colde greueþ suche one. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 898 Hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Champions fierce Strive here [in Chaos] for Maistrie.
b. absol. as n. pl. Strong sexual desire. slang.
1947in Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 274/1 I'd never get the deep undying hots for that rah rah collitch [boy]. 1951Auden Nones (1952) 18 Jack likes Jill who worships George Who has the hots for Jack. 1961S. Price Just for Record vi. 49 One day Lamb was going to get the hots for some painted woman. 1968M. Richler Cocksure vi. 44 Well, me, I've got the hots for Polly Morgan. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Aug. 921/5 It is Blodgett who has the hots for Smackenfelt's mother-in-law.
11. Phrases.
a. † hot and cold (also in hot and cold): in all conditions and circumstances (obs.). to blow hot and cold: see blow v.1 2 b. hot and cold: short for ‘hot and cold water’ (in a hotel, etc.). to go hot and cold (all over), to go all hot and cold: to experience alternate sensations of heat and cold as from shock or embarrassment. Also used trivially.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1844 Euer in hot and colde To be your trwe seruaunt. c1430Deuelis Perlt. 161 in Hymns Virg. 46 Neiþer in hoot ne coolde I may not make him stumble. 1650B. Discolliminium 30 He that pleadeth for a generall..Toleration, hot and cold, I meane constantly and deliberately.. shall finde himselfe a very Atheist. 1908Sears, Roebuck Catal. 610/4 Brass nickel plated compression bath cocks. Combination hot and cold. 1910Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1012/1 High-class boarding establishment... Bath (hot and cold). 1914Barrie Admirable Crichton iii. 130 He's working out that plan for laying on hot and cold. 1928Daily Mail 3 Aug. 10/6 The figures given..as to my earnings..made me go all hot and cold—I wonder what I can have done with all that money! 1931Times 16 Mar. 1/5 (Advt.), First-class guest house,..fitted hot and cold and gas fires. 1944A. Thirkell Headmistress i. 23 ‘There is a basin with hot and cold,’ she said. 1973A. Price October Men v. 64 His wife had said..that she had gone ‘all hot and cold’ after nearly being run over.
b. hot and hot: said of dishes of meat, etc. served in succession as soon as cooked; also absol. as n. food thus served. Also fig.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 4 Oct. Let. iv, I will give you them like a beef-steak at Dolly's, hot and hot. 1842Tennyson Will Waterproof xxix, Thy care is, under polish'd tins, To serve the hot-and-hot. 1848Dickens Dombey viii, Mutton-chops, which were brought in hot and hot, between two plates.
†c. hot of the spur: very eager about something. (Cf. hotspur.) Obs. (hot at hand: see hand n. 25 c.)
1652Shirley Doubtf. Heir v. 62 (N.) Speed, an you be so hot o' the spur.
d. to give it (a person) hot: to administer a severe chastisement. So to get or catch it hot. Also, to give it (to a person) hot and strong (and similar phrases). (Cf. 7.) colloq.
1679Hist. Jetzer 24 St. Catherine..gave him as hot as he brought. 1826Scott Jrnl. 26 Feb., I would give it them hot. 18775 Yrs.' Penal Servit. iv. 287 He ‘got it hot’ for such a crime. 1880E. W. Hamilton Diary 25 July (1972) I. 27 Wilfrid Blunt goes in ‘hot and strong’ for making the Province a sort of independence. 1881[see bite v. 1 b]. 1931T. R. G. Lyell Slang 412 To give it a person hot and strong, to punish a person severely, either physically or verbally; to give a good scolding to. 1938A. G. Macdonell Autobiogr. of Cad ii. 14 Jedediah never spent a penny on the estate unless he was legally compelled to—and then the man who legally compelled him got it hot and strong in double quick time.
e. to make it hot for: to make the position decidedly uncomfortable for. too hot for or too hot to hold (a person): said of a place, etc. which is made, through persecution or the like, too disagreeable for him to continue in.
1618Bolton Florus iv. xii. (1636) 322 Cæsar Augustus thought good to make that practice too hot for them. 1648Needham Plea for King Ep. A ij, They will make your House too hot to hold you. 1660Hickeringill Jamaica (1661) 43 'Ere they make the Island too hot for the English. 1771Foote Maid of B. i. i, The share he had in your honour's intrigue..soon made this city too hot for poor Ned. 1877C. M. Yonge Cameos Ser. iii. xiii. 110 She..made St. Albans too hot to hold her. 1890‘Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 298 A pocket Derringer, which..had a trick of going off unexpectedly, and had once ‘made it hot’ for a friend.
f. With qualifying word prefixed, denoting the degree of heat, as boiling hot, broiling hot, piping hot, red-hot, white-hot, etc.: see these words.
g. hot under (or occas. in, around) the collar: feeling anger or resentment, agitated (cf. sense 6 b); hot and bothered: in a state of exasperated agitation; also used (with hyphens) as attrib. phr.
1895Horse Rev. 31 Dec. 1840/3 He would storm erround' dat room an' git hot under de collar. 1906J. London Let. 1 Nov. (1966) 217, I must confess that he got me rather hot in the collar. 1918E. Pound Let. 4 June (1971) 138 After years of this sort of puling imbecility one gets hot under the collar and is perhaps carried to an extreme. 1919Red Cross Mag. Dec. 3/1 He fumbles around, gets hot under the collar and falsely accuses them of being a nuisance. 1921M. Arlen Romantic Lady iv. v. 161, I was getting very hot and bothered about the whole thing. 1923Kipling Independence 16 It [sc. each generation] goes to its grave hot and bothered, because no new birth has been vouchsafed for its salvation. 1930A. P. Herbert Water Gipsies 279 She was delighted, though she had been caught in that rag, and still felt hot and bothered. 1932N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 7 Feb. 18/4 We thought it must belong to the ‘Hot-and-Bothered Virgin on a Gunboat’, ‘Hot-and-Bothered Virgin at the South Pole’ series. 1941Q. Jrnl. Speech Oct. 361 [speech of the Frontier] Hamilton..spoke sharply to some of the men and Ike, with the licence allowed to an old retainer, suggested that there was no need to ‘get hot under the collar’. 1941F. Reinfeld Keres' Best Games of Chess 43/2, I suddenly began to go hot under the collar as I noticed the powerful move. 1958Listener 23 Oct. 649/2 Then she emerged, hot and bothered, glasses half down her nose. 1961J. Barlow Term of Trial i. ii. 22 Most of the teachers..urged silence in hot-and-bothered threats. 1969Bucks Examiner 25 July 7/1 Very few subjects can get parents as hot under the collar as education. 1970J. Porter Dover strikes Again i. 7 Twenty-five years in the police had not tarnished Superintendent Underbarrow's basic serenity... He made it a point of honour never to get hot around the collar about anything.
h. hot dog: see as main entry.
i. a bit hot: somewhat unreasonable.
1931T. R. G. Lyell Slang 410 To dismiss the lad just because he forgot to post a letter is a bit hot. 1946K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xiii. 204 She has to be humoured although I do think it's a bit hot her boy friend calling just as if she owned the place.
j. hot as (in hyperbolic comparisons), esp. (as) hot as hell.
1849N. Kingsley Diary (1914) 19 Hot as blazes—glad to get under awnings. 1850W. M'Collum California 20 It was a delightful, salubrious spot—‘hot as blazes’ to be sure, but fanned by gentle breezes. 1889Farmer Americanisms 293/2 Hot as the Devil's kitchen. 1896N.Y. Dramatic News 4 July 7/1 This afternoon was as hot as blazes. 1912Dialect Notes III. 579 Hot as hammered hell. 1922E. O'Neill Hairy Ape (1923) vi. 62 I'll be fire—under de heap—fire dat never goes out—hot as hell. 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 58/2 Hot as a 45, wanted by the police. 1935Dylan Thomas Let. July (1966) 159 He's got a..hot-as-hell conservatory with a fountain. 1953R. Graves Poems 29 From every-which-a-way, hot as a two-buck pistol. 1967Word Study Dec. 4/1 One of the most common comparisons in English—is probably ‘as hot as hell’.
12. Comb.
a. Parasynthetic, as hot-breathed, hot-eyed, hot-hearted, hot-looking, hot-mettled, hot-spirited, hot-stomached, hot-tailed, hot-tempered, hot-toned adjs.b. With another adj., expressing a union of qualities (poet.), as hot-bright, hot-cold, hot-dry, hot-humid, hot-moist adjs.c. Special combinations and collocations: hot-ache (dial.), a pain felt in the hands when warmed after being very cold; hence hot-aching a.; † hot-backed a., lustful; hot beef, rhyming slang for ‘Stop thief!’ e.g. in phr. to give (a person) hot beef; hot bottle, a hot-water bottle; hot box U.S., an overheated journal-box, esp. of a railway carriage; also fig. or transf.; hot bricks, chiefly in phr. like a cat on hot bricks, denoting a situation of extreme discomfort and restiveness, or expressing swiftness or nimbleness of movement; hot bulb, in a semi-Diesel engine, an uncooled chamber connected to the cylinder head which is maintained at a sufficiently high temperature to vaporize fuel oil injected into it prior to compression in the cylinder; any mass of metal that performs the same function in such an engine, usu. attrib.; hot cakes orig. U.S., (a) griddle-cakes, flannel-cakes; (b) in phr. to sell or go (off) like hot cakes, to be sold or disposed of very rapidly; to be in great demand; hot cathode, a cathode intended to be heated, so that electrons are emitted thermionically; also attrib.; hot chisel, a short thick chisel used for cutting or nicking hot metal and having a sharper edge than a cold chisel; hot-closet (see quot.); hot coppers (see copper n.1 8); hot cross bun (see bun n.2 1, cross-bun); hot cupboard, (a) an airing cupboard; also fig.; (b) a cupboard in which plates, dishes, etc., may be made warm; hot diggety (dog) U.S. slang, an exclamation of joy or surprise; cf. hot dog 3; hot-dip a., involving, used for, or applied by hot dipping; hot dipping, the application of a coating to an article either by dipping it in a bath of hot liquid (e.g. molten metal), or by dipping it hot in a bath of liquid; so hot-dipped a., said of the coating; hot flashes, flushes pl., a menopausal symptom which manifests itself by a momentary sensation of heat, freq. accompanied by a heightening of facial colour and perspiration; hot-flue, a heated chamber for drying cloth or other articles; hot-hoof adv., with haste or rapid progress (of horses or cattle: cf. hot-foot); hot iron (see sense 8 f above); hot-iron test Cheesemaking, a test to determine the acidity of the curd; hot line, a direct, exclusive communication channel between two points; spec. the direct telephone link between Washington and Moscow (and similar lines); also attrib. and fig.; † hot-livered a., hot-tempered, excitable, irascible; hot-making a. colloq., embarrassing; hot-melt a., solid at normal temperatures but capable of being melted for application (e.g. as a coating); hot metal, (a) molten iron: see sense 8 f above; (b) used attrib. to designate printing machines and methods in which type made by the machine from molten metal is used; hot money, capital which is transferred from one country to another in order to avoid the effects of currency devaluation or to profit from high interest rates or possible revaluation; also attrib.; † hot-mouthed a., restive or ungovernable, as a horse whose mouth is irritated by the bit; hot pants, brief shorts worn by girls and young women as a fashion in the early 1970s; cf. to have (or get) hot pants s.v. sense 6 c above; hence hot-panted, hot-pantsed adjs.; hot pint, a drink consisting of ale sweetened, spiced, and heated: so-called in Scotland; † hot piss = chaudpisse; hot-plate, (a) a heated flat surface on a stove, etc., for cooking or similar purposes; also, a heating element on an electric cooker; (b) a plate with a cover for keeping food hot; (c) a low, portable heating appliance with a flat top for keeping food hot or heating vessels, food, etc., placed on it; hot potato, in fig. phr. (to drop something) like a hot potato; also, a ticklish subject, an embarrassing problem; rhyming slang, a waiter; † hot-reined a., ‘fiery, high-spirited’ (Jodrell); hot-saw, a buzz-saw for cutting up hot bar-iron into pieces to be re-heated, and re-rolled (Knight); hot seat, (a) (see sense 1 e above); (b) used as in sense 7 b; (c) (see quots. 1933 and 1938); (d) an ejection seat in an aircraft; hot set, a hot chisel, esp. one with a wooden handle; hot shift orig. U.S., a mechanism enabling a change of gear to be made while a vehicle is moving without interrupting the drive to the wheels; hot shoe, a socket on a camera incorporating electrical contacts for a flash, etc.; hot-skull = hot-head; hot spring, any spring whose waters issue forth at a temperature appreciably higher than that of the ground; hot squat (see sense 1 e above); hot-stopping (slang), hot spirits and water; hot-stove N. Amer., used attrib. of a discussion about a particular sport (e.g. baseball or ice hockey) between periods of play or in an off-season; also applied to anyone discussing a sport in this way; hot tear Metallurgy, a rupture produced in a casting or ingot as the metal cools and contracts; so hot tearing vbl. n.; hot top Metallurgy, a refractory container for holding a reservoir of molten metal at the top of a mould during the solidification of an ingot; hot-trode, fresh or recent trail; hot tube, in some early internal combustion engines, a metal or porcelain tube, closed at the end, which projected from one end of the cylinder and was heated externally by a flame, so that it ignited the mixture forced into it during the compression stroke; usu. attrib. in hot-tube ignition; hot-wall, ‘a wall with included flues to assist in ripening the fruit of trees trained against it’ (Knight); hot war, an open war, involving active hostilities (opp. cold war); hence hot-warrior; hot wave, a spell of exceptionally hot weather, a heat wave; hot wind, a dry, very hot wind that blows over land for large distances from the interior in Australia, the United States, and elsewhere; hot-wire attrib., denoting electrical instruments the indications or operation of which are based on the change in the length or resistance of a wire with changing temperature; as v. trans. (N. Amer. slang), to by-pass the ignition systm of a motor vehicle (as a preliminary to stealing the vehicle); hence hot-wired ppl. a.; hot with (colloq.), hot spirits and water with sugar (cf. cold without); in quot. 1862 fig.
1697Lister in Phil. Trans. XIX. 379 The tops of my Fingers..did boaken and ake, as when after extream cold, one has the *hot-ach in them. 1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. 131 note, The pain called the hot-ach after the hands have been immersed in snow. 1917D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 155 Their scent is lacerating and repellent, it smells of burning snow, of hot-ache. Ibid. 156 What kind of ice-rotten, hot-aching heart must they need to root in!
1607Tourneur Rev. Trag. i. ii. Wks. 1878 II. 21 A *hot-back'd Diuill.
1879Macm. Mag. XL. 506/2 He followed, giving me *hot beef (calling ‘Stop thief’). 1896A. Morrison Child of Jago x. 95 It was now that he first experienced ‘hot beef’—which is the Jago idiom denoting the plight of one harried by the cry ‘Stop thief’. 1973G. Butler Coffin for Pandora vii. 157 ‘Hot beef, hot beef,’ cried the schoolboys. ‘Catch him...’
1845Mrs. Gaskell Lett. (1966) 824 Please let Meta's feet be warm in bed (a *hot bottle she has here by Dr. H' direction). 1860F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing i. 11 Hot bottles, hot bricks, or warm flannels..should be made use of until the temperature is restored. 1967S. Knight Window on Shanghai xxxi. 139 The Chinese don't use hot-bottles unless they're ill.
1848Merchant's Mag. XIX. 656 Such a thing as a ‘*hot box’ to a car has not been known,..since the sprinkler has been in use. 1873‘Mark Twain’ & Warner Gilded Age xlvi. 419 A hot box had to be cooled at Wilmington. 1899S. Hale Lett. (1919) 343 He was excellent with the horses and very careful about hot-boxes and watering. 1910J. Hart Vigilante Girl x. 140 If that near hind box was to begin to talk different, I'd pull up and examine it right away. Mebbe I'd save a hot box by doin' it. 1971D. J. Smith Discovering Railwayana x. 56 Hot box, axle box overheated through lack of lubricants or overwork. 1971Flying (N.Y.) Apr. 48/3 Lovely airplane but its another hotbox.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iv. 301 Orion, Eridanus..and *hot-breath'd Sirius.
[1678J. Ray Coll. Eng. Proverbs (ed. 2) 285 To go like a cat upon a hot bake-stone.] 1862G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar ii. 248 A well-bred, raking-looking sort of mare... Beautiful action she had, stepped away like a cat on *hot bricks. 1886‘J. S. Winter’ Army Society xvi, Lady Mainwaring looked..like a cat on hot bricks. 1958‘A. Gilbert’ Death against Clock 165 Crook also was like a cat on hot bricks. 1961Wodehouse Service with Smile iii. 42 Having become accustomed to this kind of thing myself..I have lost that cat-on-hot-bricks feeling which I must have had at one time.
a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 33 Night neither here is fair, nor day *hot-bright.
1911Motor Boat 26 Jan. 66/3 If you are nervous of electric ignition you should choose a *hot-bulb ignition engine. 1919W. Pollock Hot Bulb Oil Engines i. 2 All engines of the low compression type using heavy oils, and hot surface ignition of the injected spray are included under the title of hot bulb oil engines, although some makers use plates or discs, instead of bulbs. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 519/1 Prior to starting the hot-bulb is blow-lamp-heated for 10 to 15 minutes. 1958Van Nostrand's Sci. Encycl. (ed. 3) 823/1 It [sc. the semi-Diesel engine] has a hot bulb, which is a certain mass of metal incorporated in the cylinder head in such a way that a portion of it projects slightly in the combustion space.
1683W. Penn Sel. Works (1782) IV. 309 Their entertainment was..twenty bucks, with *hot cakes of new corn. 1839C. F. Briggs Adventures H. Franco I. xi. 74 ‘You had better buy 'em, Colonel,’ said Mr. Lummucks, ‘they will sell like hot cakes.’ 1879Congress. Rec. 15 May 1368/1 Four per cent bonds..go off like hot cakes. 1891Farmer Slang II. 18/2 s.v. Cake, Buckwheat and other hot cakes form a staple dish at many American tables. 1893P. H. Emerson Signor Lippo xii. 37 It went off like hot cakes. 1908Daily Chron. 4 Aug. 3/4 Ice creams at 3d. a time went ‘like hot cakes’. 1925J. Gregory Bab of Backwoods xi. 141 So they got the blaze going, bacon sizzling, the frying-pan balanced on the fire, hot-cakes mixed and coffee set to boil. 1930E. Waugh Vile Bodies x. 183 Those who were fortunate enough to own cottages or public houses at the more dangerous corners..were selling tickets like very expensive hot cakes. 1949H. Kurath Word Geogr. Eastern U.S. 34 Flannel cake is..rather uncommon in..Philadelphia, where hot-cake is in common use. Ibid. 35 Hot⁓cakes for griddle cakes made of flour. 1966Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 xlii. 16 Flapjacks, the commonest name for pancakes. Batter (or batty) cakes, flitters (or flitter cakes), fritters, griddle cakes, hot cakes are all known. 1971Petticoat 17 July 3/1 You'll find amazing hessian bags..selling like hot cakes for only {pstlg}1.50.
1913Physical Rev. II. 412 The idea of using a *hot cathode in a Röntgen tube was not new. 1930Engineering 31 Oct. 560/2 The hot-cathode discharge tube was free from these restrictions. 1943Electronic Engin. XVI. 260/3 The instrument incorporates a hot-cathode, low-voltage, cathode-ray tube. 1959Listener 12 Mar. 454/1 The hot cathode, as it was called in 1930, consisted of a small rod of alkaline earth oxide held in a tungsten coil.
1889N. & Q. 23 Feb. 151/1 Cold and *hot chisels are used for cutting cold and hot iron (or metal) respectively. 1964S. Crawford Basic Engin. Processes xiii. 274 The process used to remove surplus metal from the forging with the aid of hot chisels or hot sets.
a1817Jane Austen Northang. Abb. (1818) II. viii. 148 The ancient kitchen..rich in the massy walls and smoke of former days, and in the stoves and *hot closets of the present. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Hot-closet. 1. One attached to a stove to keep victuals or plates warm..2. (Candle-making.) A chamber in which candle-molds are kept at a heat of 150° Fah., previous to pouring, to prevent the chilling of the stearic acid.
1597Middleton Wisd. Solomon ix. v, Behold his poore estate, his *hot-cold fire. 1614Sylvester Little Bartas 456 The Fits of th' hot-cold cruell Fever.
1733*Hot cross bun [see cross-bun]. 1825[see bun n.2 1]. 1880A. Beardsley Let. 1 Apr. (1971) 12 On Good Friday we had hot cross buns for breakfast. 1908A. Huxley Let. 17 Apr. (1969) 26, I am almost prostrated just now by an Enourmous [sic] Hot cross Bun. 1941C. Hole Eng. Custom & Usage iv. 43 Hot-cross buns are eaten throughout England on Good Friday... These little cakes..seemed to be descended from the wheaten cakes eaten at the Spring Festival alike by Greeks, Romans and Saxons. 1970Simon & Howe Dict. Gastron. 90/2 Hot Cross buns are heavily spiced and eaten on Good Friday.
1930S. Beckett Whoroscope 2 Them were the days I sat in the *hot-cupboard throwing Jesuits out of the skylight. 1931― Proust 51 The Cartesian hotcupboard of the Guermantes library. 1950Chambers's Encycl. VII. 256/2 One [electric cooker] for an ordinary family..would include..a hot cupboard enclosed by a drop door between the hob and the oven, and an oven. 1953M. Dickens No More Meadows i. 20 The bathroom, which housed a boiler and a monstrous hot cupboard. 1959Observer 12 Apr. 14/5 The bathroom..is assumed to be on first-floor level, adjoining a bedroom with access to water-heater hot-cupboard from the passage. 1967N. Freeling Strike Out i. 11 Saskia took a plate from the hot cupboard.
1924Dialect Notes V. 270 *Hot diggity. 1927Sun (Baltimore) 3 Apr. ii. i. 12/2 When it comes to ‘hot dog’, there's no more to be said, unless it is, perhaps, to add a frill and make it ‘hot diggety dog’. 1939Ryerson & Clements June Mad iii. 178 I'll..get cleaned up and into my..tux!..Hot diggity! 1947M. Lowry Let. May (1967) 142 All I wanted was..a single word or phrase like: O.K., Hot Diggety, or even We are not amused. 1952M. R. Rinehart Swimming Pool xi. 104 Hot diggety dog! Ain't that something?
1923Foundry (Cleveland) 1 June 454/3 It has been shown that the deterioration of malleable in the *hot-dip galvanizing process is intimately connected with the phosphorus and silicon content of the iron. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Mar. 138/2 (Advt.), Rust-proofing by the Hot-dip Galvanizing process ensures complete protection against weather. 1961New Scientist 13 Apr. 38/2 The industrial process for the hot dip tinning of steel has been practised successfully for many years. 1971Engineering Apr. 61/2 Croda Chemicals Ltd..supply both hot-dip strippable wax coatings as well as plastics. Ibid. 63/1 These are hot-dip compounds and provide coats impervious to moisture.
1936Jrnl. Amer. Zinc Inst. XVII. 70 We began to collect samples of *hot dipped spelter coated or galvanized sheets that had been subjected to varying periods of service. 1952Kirk & Othmer Encycl. Chem. Technol. VIII. 901 The normal hot-dipped coating consists of an alloy layer covered with a layer of pure coating metal.
1931Amer. Machinist 8 Jan. 59/2 In *hot dipping, crevices are sealed shut and filled with metal. 1954Plastics Engin. Handbk. (Soc. Plastics Industry, Inc.) x. 300 Successive hot-dipping of objects in a tank of plastisol over the course of several hours will raise the temperature of the plastisol.
1605― Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. Law 1167 Some *hot-dry Exhaling, Or Blazing-Star.
1924A. J. Small Frozen Gold 222 *Hot-eyed, livid-faced men. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Oct. 788/4 The Herr Doktor, who was hot-eyed, not weary-eyed. 1969Listener 5 July 21/3 For some tastes, to embark on a Doris Lessing book has always meant a tough regime of entrail-inspection and hot-eyed political pamphleteering.
1910H. S. Crossen Diagn. & Treatm. Dis. Women (ed. 2) xiv. 851 ‘*Hot flashes’..can hardly be classed as pathological. 1933R. G. Hoskins Tides of Life xii. 282 This..phenomenon is accompanied by..the well-known ‘hot flashes’. 1959M. F. Willis Let. in ‘I. Devi’ Yoga for You (1960) 200 These benefits have continued with the extra good fortune of getting rid of seventy-five per cent of the hot flashes.
1875Ure's Dict. Arts II. 820 *Hot-flue is..an apartment heated by stoves or steam-pipes, in which..calicoes are dried hard.
1910W. B. Bell Princ. Gynaecol. iii. 89 The ‘*hot flushes’..are produced by rapid changes in the condition of the vaso⁓motor system. 1946P. M. F. Bishop Gynaecol. Endocrinol. iii. 33 A premature menopause complete with hot flushes becomes established. 1948L. Martin Clinical Endocrinol. viii. 185 The general symptoms of the menopause are well marked in over 50 per cent of women, but some entirely escape and others suffer only minor discomfort from ‘hot flushes’. 1971M. Lee Dying for Fun xxxvi. 174, I keep getting hot flushes. It's my age.
1897Blackw. Mag. Dec. 722 To take..a hundred head of bestial *hot-hoof over hill and moor.
a1618Sylvester Panaretus 1284 The Angell..found her out in a *hot-humid Cell.
1889Jrnl. Brit. Dairy Farmers' Assoc. V. ii. 70, I depend entirely on the *hot iron test at this stage [of cheese-making]. Ibid., To determine when the curd is ready for salting the hot iron test is again resorted to. 1955J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 209 Hot iron test. This test is held in great esteem by some cheesemakers, but is very crudely carried out.
1955N.Y. Times Mag. 7 Aug. 10/1 To hold this breakthrough to a minimum is ‘ConAd's’ job. It has twelve air divisions, tied in by ‘*hot line’ communications with one another and with the Army, Navy and Civil Defense Administration. 1962Flight Internat. LXXXI. 401/1 ‘Hot line’ communications are by radio. 1963Guardian 6 Apr. 1/3 Mr. Tsarapkin's acceptance of a ‘hot’ White House–Kremlin telephone or teleprinter line. 1963Daily Tel. 21 June 16 Hot line. At Geneva yesterday the United States and Russia signed an agreement to set up a direct link between the Kremlin, the Pentagon and, presumably, the White House. 1963Ibid. 6 Sept. 23/4 The British Overseas Airways Corporation yesterday opened its own ‘hot line’. It is an instantaneous electronic reservations system between London and New York. 1965New Statesman 17 Sept. 390/2 The hand [of the Pope] hesitates to reach for the hot-line to the Holy Ghost. 1966Maclean's Mag. 17 Sept. 3 About 20 orators arose, one after another, to espouse everything from (predictably enough) free university tuition to local night shopping and radio hot lines. 1966Melody Maker 15 Oct. 6 Is he a mystic with a direct hot-line to heaven? 1969Times 9 Aug. 4/2 President Nixon and..the West German Chancellor, announced today that they had agreed to set up a ‘hot line’ for communication between Washington and Bonn. 1970Daily Tel. 17 Mar. 13/2 ‘Hot lines’ are becoming de rigueur these days—Washington–London–Moscow, to say nothing of London–Canberra. 1971Ibid. 26 July 3/3 On five days during the Moon mission, ITN will have a ‘hot line’ over which viewers can put questions to a panel of experts.
1599Broughton's Let. ix. 29 Ignorant *hotliuered fellowes, of an vnseasoned zeale. 1641Milton Animadv. (1851) 188 A capricious Pædantie of hot-liver'd Grammarians.
1936J. Curtis Gilt Kid v. 50 She wasn't quite so *hot-looking as Maisie... That judy certainly had passion. 1959Tamarack Rev. xii. 23 How could a hot-looking girl turn out so cold?
1931Sunday Times 22 Feb. 4/1 This, to use the current phrase, *hot-making play. 1958B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties i. 34 How was it that Queen Marie delivered such hot-making effusions?
1939Manuf. Pulp & Paper (ed. 3) V. §4. 84 *Hot-melt coatings will probably become familiar as paper coatings in the near future. 1946Nature 30 Nov. 801/1 The production of hot-melt inks for carbon paper. 1954Plastics Engin. Handbk. (Soc. Plastics Industry, Inc.) viii. 234 Hot-melt compounds of ethyl cellulose have become available..as another tooling material... Worn or damaged tools..can be reclaimed by remelting and recasting. 1969New Scientist 19 June 641/3 The process is based on the use of papers precoated during production with a very thin film of ‘hot-melt’ plastic resin.
1960McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. X. 601/2 If type produced on ‘*hot metal’ machines is to be used, the type is set, proved, read, and corrected. 1964Turnbull & Baird Graphics of Communication v. 83 Hot-metal composition is done on various type-casting machines. 1971Brit. Printer Aug. 61/1 Harris-Intertype has introduced a low-cost photo text setter, the price of which is said to be comparable to that of a modern, manual hot-metal machine.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 34 Their Horses..are small and *hot-mettled.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 261 The cold-dry Earth to *hot-moist Aire returns not.
1936P. J. O'Brien Forward with Roosevelt xi. 191 The movements of ‘refugee capital’, or as President Roosevelt and other financiers..described it, ‘*hot money’, was an important consideration in the question of currency stabilization. 1951J. R. Winton Dict. Econ. Terms (ed. 3) 45 Hot money, a term used to describe the movement between different countries of balances and capital assets, withdrawn from one country through a loss of confidence as a result of war scares, possibilities of currency depreciation, [etc.]. 1958Spectator 24 Jan. 117/2 Anybody who can afford to pay the ‘hot’ money price. 1971Daily Tel. 3 Feb. 15 The huge volume of ‘hot money’ coming from abroad to chase high interest rates in Britain.
1645Quarles Sol. Recant. vii. 9 Let not thy *hot-mouth'd spirit entertain Too sudden passion with too slack a rain. 1681Dryden Sp. Friar iii. iii, That hot-mouthed beast, that bears against the curb.
1971New Scientist 25 Feb. 428/2 Where we once had ladies in gowns and earrings to elocute the score at us, we now have *hot-panted dolly⁓birds who can't add up. 1972Guardian 29 May 8/1 The miniskirted or hotpanted lass.
1970Women's Wear Daily 23 Nov. 31/2 As for *hotpants, we haven't seen anything in the market... They're going to have to be styled very imaginatively. Otherwise, they're going to look like old⁓fashioned short shorts. 1971Daily Tel. 26 Jan. 4/8 ‘Hot pants’, the fashion craze for abbreviated shorts for day or evening wear, is becoming the dominant fashion in the children's wear field, according to designers and manufacturers in New York. Ibid. 8 Nov. 12/8 Hotpants have rather quickly died a fashion death. 1971Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 26 May 2A/1 Bibbed hot pants in easy care cotton. Styled with back zip.
1971W. Hanley Blue Dreams xi. 178 But, she couldn't wait! *Hot-pantsed little... It was all perfectly clear now!
1863Chambers' Bk. of Days I. 28 On the approach of twelve o'clock, a *hot pint was prepared—that is, a kettle or flagon full of warm, spiced, and sweetened ale, with an infusion of spirits.
1578Lyte Dodoens iii. lxvii. 408 Good against the strangurie, the *hoote pisse, the stone in the bladder.
1845E. Acton Mod. Cook. vii. 159 The *hot plates, or hearths with which the kitchens of good homes are always furnished. 1846S. Etievant Brit. Pat. 11,096, In the Drawing,..the spit on to which the material to be roasted is placed is affixed to the hot plate J, which carries the pots for charcoal K. 1861C. E. Francatelli Cook's Guide 3 (Advt.), Smoke Jacks, Hot Plates,.., Steam Tables, and..other description of..Cooking Apparatus. 1925G. L. Hill Ariel Custer vii. 99 A gas hot plate with two burners. 1925L. Stallings Plumes vii. 175 The hot plate..was set upon a bracket next the water closet. 1936Catal. Chem. Apparatus (F. E. Becker & Co.) (ed. 25) 436 Gas Heated Hot Plate, polished smooth steel top on wrought-iron stand. 1938Trans. Amer. Soc. Mech. Engin. LX. 70/1 Cores, crossbands and veneers..were glued on a hydraulic hot-plate press with hide or bone glue. 1966Which? Feb. 45/2 All the other cookers had spiral hotplates with continuously variable controls. 1969Hotplate [see cordless a.]. 1971Sci. Amer. Aug. 108/3, I use butyl phthalate..and heat it with small laboratory hot plates operated at a temperature of 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
[1840Picayune (New Orleans) 11 Sept. 2/2 Let's drop Nancy Daly like a hot praytee and proceed.] 1846Spirit of Times 6 June 170/1, I dropped the divine's arm ‘like a *hot potatoe’. 1861H. Rhys Theatr. Trip Canada & U.S. xi. 96 A deep growl..made me drop the article like a hot potato. 1886B. P. Poore Perley's Reminisc. I. 448 They dropped him like a hot potato when they learned that he had accepted a place on the Republican Committee of his State. 1909J. R. Ware Passing Eng. 155/1 Hot potato (False Rhyming—Music Hall, 1880). Waiter. 1930W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale xiv. 169 She dropped him, but not like a hot brick or a hot potato. 1952M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) xiii. 257 It was a very hot potato... I chose to ignore the question. 1958Economist 20 Dec. 1062/2 It has..dropped the hot-potato question of future UN forces. 1961C. McCullers Clock without Hands x. 199 The Judge had been distressed when Johnny agreed to take the case, was amazed at first at the way he handled it—hot potato that it was. 1963Listener 14 Feb. 308/1 Tories continue to treat laissez-faire enterprise as a political hot potato. 1969New Scientist 16 Oct. 116/1 The current hot potato in the sociological field is the question of poverty in Britain today.
1639Massinger Unnat. Combat iv. ii, Like a *hot-rein'd horse.
1933C. E. Leach On Top of Underworld xii. 185 No catalogue of the methods of con-men would be complete without an exposure of this time-honoured ‘ramp’ [the ‘Rosary’ confidence trick], and of its companion, the ‘*Hot Seat’. 1938F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xxviii. 286 You've got to hand it to the Hot Seat Boys. They're clever little devils. For the benefit of the great overworld public—Hot Seat Mob is the title bestowed by the Underworld on the gentlemen we so often read about under the heading of Confidence Tricksters. 1942Time 6 Apr. 49/1 We are an entire nation of people who are trying to wage a war and everyone is trying, himself, to keep out of the hot seat. 1950Nat. Geogr. Mag. Sept. 311/1 (heading) Jets' ‘Hot Seat’ saves lives. 1959Observer 11 Oct. 21/4 The cosy climate of gracious-uxorious living shattered by hot-seat-phobia. 1961Economist 2 Dec. 913/1 The ‘hot seat’ issue of Chinese representation. 1966Listener 28 July 143/1 After fifteen months in this critical hot seat..between listeners and the BBC I am saying my farewell. 1969Times 24 June 25/1 (headline) Return to the hot seat.
1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 183 *Hot set, a smith's set,..used for the nicking and cutting of hot metal. 1894G. Hughes Construction Mod. Locomotive iii. ii. 155 Upon each side of the vertical an angle of 45° is marked, that is, nicked cold and afterwards heated and removed by a hot set. 1964S. Crawford Basic Engin. Processes xiii. 270 The hot set is used for cutting or marking hot material, often used in conjunction with a hardie.
1971Power Farming Mar. 15/4 The tractor of the late seventies would be similar in layout to present-day models... The main differences would be in driver comfort,..greater use of *hot-shift transmission and quick-attach systems for implements. 1972Good Motoring Dec. 12/1 Driver-controlled epicyclic gearboxes in which various ratios were engaged or disengaged under load (‘hot shift’ is the American phrase) by means of friction clutches.
1971Amat. Photographer 13 Jan. 57/1 (Advt.), Center flash contact (*hot shoe). 1972Ibid. 12 Jan. 71/2 (Advt.), Dual flash synchronisation system accepts virtually every type of flash unit with ‘hot shoe’ or plug-in coupling. 1972L. Gaunt Praktica Way 118 Their single flash contact is in the accessory shoe and is designed for use with flashguns with a contact in the foot (the so-called ‘hot-shoe’ contact).
1608Day Hum. out of Br. iv. i. Wks (1881) 53 *Hot-sprighted youthes.
1669W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 154 Some other causes there are of *hot springs, viz. subterraneal fires. 1780[see geyser 1]. 1850[see spring n.1 2 b]. 1961Times 18 Mar. 11/1 Hot springs are found throughout the island [sc. Iceland].
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Phil. 5 Peace and concorde can not..continue among them, that are *hote stomaked and hyghe mynded.
1861G. J. Whyte-Melville Mkt. Harb. ii. (ed. 12) 13 No man can..drink *hot-stopping the last thing at night, and get up in the morning without remembering that he has done so.
1952Time 18 Feb. 55 *Hot stove leaguer, in the U.S., anyone who likes to talk at length..about recent developments in his favorite sport—which is usually baseball. 1959Ottawa Citizen 25 June Suppl. 7/1 The auto industry has its own hot-stove league—the off-season gatherings of stylists, planners and engineers who talk of what might have been or what might yet be. 1962Hockey Canada Nov. 12/2 Things we have missed may be mulled over in Hot Stove sessions which are as old and as popular as the sport of hockey itself. 1965Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 26/4 King Clancy..joined Bower..on the Hot Stove panel yesterday.
1680? Buckhurst in Rochester Poems 78 Until her *Hot-Tail'd Majesty..Had worne her Gems on Holy Days.
1933Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXXVII. 566 The application of certain principles of casting design is important in eliminating the danger of *hot-tears. 1955Heine & Rosenthal Princ. Metal Casting xvi. 350 A rigid mold is also a potential cause of hot tears.
1945Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CLI. 380P The degree of *hot tearing..can be minimised or often eliminated by using steel with a lower sulphur content. 1967A. H. Cottrell Introd. Metall. xiii. 180 Another practical problem of shrinkage is hot tearing.
1873Symonds Grk. Poets vii. 196 Oedipus, the *hot-tempered king.
1961New Left Rev. July–Aug. 43/1 A swinging musician with a great sense of the Blues, and ‘*hot-toned’.
1928Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXVII. 831 Corrugated ingots of acid steel cast with *hot tops to eliminate segregation and piping are used for the larger forgings. 1954A. R. Bailey Text-bk. Metall. ix. 388 A ‘hot top’..acts as a reservoir for feeding the ingot, the pipe eventually occurring in this portion, which is discarded.
1774Pennant Tour Scotl. in 1772, 68 Persons who were aggrieved..were allowed to pursue the *hot-trode with hound and horn. 1805Scott Last Minstr. v. xxix. note, The pursuit of Border marauders was followed..with bloodhounds and bugle-horn, and was called the hot-trod.
1890W. Robinson Gas & Petroleum Engines iii. 35 The *hot tube gives a good regular ignition. Ibid., With hot-tube ignition..there is the possibility of premature and irregular explosions. 1912Askling & Roesler Internal Combustion Engines ii. ii. 122 Ignition by hot tube is only employed for small engines. 1963Bird & Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car 67, 1899 Clément-Panhard... Engine: Transverse, inclined, rear, 1-cyl., 90 × 120 mm., A.I.V. (i.o.e.), hot-tube ignition.
1777W. Wilson (title) The Forcing of Early Fruits, and the Management of *Hot Walls.
[1768J. Lees Jrnl. (1911) 39 The Chipawas..were at this time in a hot war with the Sous.] 1947Newsweek 17 Nov. 25/2 The ideological war of the Communists is as ruthless and as determined..as a *hot war. 1955Times 5 July 11/6 It is a reasonable assumption that a hot war would be measured in months if not weeks. 1973R. Hayes Hungarian Game 340 U.K. Counterintelligence..blew the cover of every Abwehrabteilung..agent in Britain during the hot war.
1966New Statesman 22 July 116/2 It is more likely that the *hot warriors..want to use rash behaviour in Hanoi to authenticate the next escalation.
1888Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 805/1 The occasional occurrence of ‘*hot waves’ which sweep over large areas of country, raising the temperature much above its normal height, is one of the most striking and most disagreeable features of the climate of the country [sc. the U.S.A.]. 1901Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 23 Oct. 5/2 The ‘hot wave’, as the weather man calls it, was general along the coast and extended some way east. 1936Discovery Mar. 78/2 The only periods when Buchan's spells appear to be at all true in London and the south are his cold wave of February 7th to 14th, and the hot wave from July 12th to 15th. 1968G. R. Rumney Climatol. xi. 198 The familiar but unwelcome heat wave, or hot wave, of eastern North America.
1797Encycl. Brit. VI. 402/1 A sign of the approaching Simoom or *hot wind. 1804Wellington Disp. (1837) III. 180 A desire to give his troops some repose, and not to expose the Europeans to the hot winds in Hindustan. 1850R. G. Cumming Five Yrs. Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. 60 At certain seasons..northerly breezes prevail: these are termed by the colonists ‘hot winds’. 1900W. Stebbing C. H. Pearson 289 He revelled in the Victoria hot-wind days which shrivelled up everybody else. 1910W. L. Moore Descr. Meteorol. x. 187 The ‘hot winds’ of our western plains [in the U.S.A.]. 1971J. Gentilli Climates of Austral. & N.Z. v. 68 In the southern interior, especially in Victoria, these hot winds laden with dust are known as brick⁓fielders.
1871‘Dingo’ Austral. Rhymes 18 The dust and the *hot-windy weather.
1889Telephone 15 Mar. 136/1 The actual stress in the platinum silver wire in our *hot-wire voltmeter was not sufficient. 1904Electrician Nov. 150/1 An oscillating circuit containing..a delicate hot-wire ammeter. 1914Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. CCXIV. 404 (heading) On the design of portable hot-wire anemometers. Ibid. 405 Standard thermometer wire is the most suitable for the purpose of hot-wire anemometry. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 186/2 A case of great importance from its industrial application in hot wire valves is one where all the ions are negative and are emitted from the cathode. 1923E. W. Marchant Radio Telegr. iv. 44 Other forms of detector for wireless circuits are the electrolytic, the hot wire ‘barretter’ and the crystal. 1933Phil. Mag. XVI. 50 The sound recording instrument was a tuned hot-wire microphone. 1957Haltiner & Martin Dynamical & Physical Meteorol. xiv. 218 Hot-wire anemometers are..highly sensitive instruments capable of measuring mean wind velocities over very short periods (down to 0·1 sec.). 1957E. G. Richardson Techn. Aspects Sound II. ix. 361 The turbulence data..were measured inside the jet stream by the use of hot wire equipment. 1966R. Thomas Spy in Vodka (1967) i. 7, I was pleasantly surprised to find my car intact. The German juvenile delinquents..can hot-wire a car in a time that makes their American counterparts look sick. 1968Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 5 Sept. 19/2 Newton told court he yelled his intention to ‘hot-wire’ the Thomas car (bypass the need for an ignition key).
1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 269 *Hot-wired, designating a motor vehicle which has had the ignition switch short-circuited by a thief.
1843Ainsworth's Mag. IV. 437 The ‘*hot with’ set our tongues in motion. 1856C. Reade Never too Late III. xxx. 289 ‘Hot with,’ demanded the waiter in a sharp mechanical tone... The landlady..poured first the brandy then the hot water into a tumbler. 1862Thackeray Wks. (1872) X. 211 How do you like your novels? I like mine strong, ‘hot with’.
d. Used before numerous vbl. ns. and pa. pples. (ppl. adjs.) that denote an industrial or manufacturing process or its result, from which arise transitive vbs. as back-formations; so hot drawing, the drawing of wire, tubing, or the like with the application of heat or while hot; hot-drawn adj.; hot-draw vb.; hot-gilding, ‘a name applied to amalgam gilding, in which the mercury is driven off by heat’ (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875); hot moulding, moulding in which heat is applied either to the material to be moulded (as in injection moulding) or to the mould (as in compression moulding); hot-moulded adj.; hot-mould vb.; hot rolling, the rolling of metal while it is at an elevated temperature; hot-rolled adj.; hot-roll vb. Also hot-press v., hot-work v.
1899N.E.D., Hot-drawn. 1910H. P. Tiemann Iron & Steel 336 With hot drawing the thickness of the walls is not generally carried below 1/4 in. 1952J. Delmonte Plastics Molding xiii. 409 It is much more feasible to stock a few sizes and then, when a special tubing is required, hot-draw the tubing down to the required dimension. 1963H. R. Clauser Encycl. Engin. Materials 685/1 Typical applications for these steels are..hot-drawing dies..and die casting dies.
1938H. I. Lewenz tr. Brandenburger's Processes & Machinery Plastics Industry i. 1 *Hot moulding, where the hardening process..takes place to some extent simultaneously with the moulding of the paste by tools, which..are heated. Ibid. 7 Hot-moulded articles. 1962Times 13 Feb. 4/6 They have offered to build a racing eight by the hot-moulded method. 1964N. G. Clark Mod. Org. Chem. xvii. 359 The product is a colourless, transparent solid which may be machined, or hot-moulded.
1878*Hot-rolled [see cold-rolled (cold a. 18)]. 1888Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers, XCIV. 236 (caption) Billet [of mild steel]. Reduced by hot rolling to wire rod. 1925Hot-roll [see base box (base n.1 20)]. 1928Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXVII. 840 A description of the hot-rolling, cold-rolling and drawing operations in the manufacture of nickel steel. 1955Times 12 July 8/3 The new Duisburg mill will be able..to produce 180,000 tons of hot-rolled steel products a month. 1967A. H. Cottrell Introd. Metall. xxii. 439 In steel-making..the ingots are taken from their moulds while still hot and then stored in a soaking pit or furnace ready for hot-rolling at 1000–1200° C.
Add:[12.] [c.] hot dark matter Astron., dark matter consisting of particles whose motion soon after the big bang was very energetic.
[1984Primack & Blumenthal in NATO ASI Ser. C CXVII. 166 We will consider here the physical and astrophysical implications of three classes of elementary particle D[ark] M[atter] candidates, which we will call hot, warm, and cold. (We are grateful to Dick bond for proposing this apt terminology.) Hot DM refers to particles, such as neutrinos, which were still in thermal equilibrium after the most recent phase transition in hot early universe. ]1985Astrophysical Jrnl. CCXCIX. 583 We consider the Einstein–de Sitter universe dominated by two kinds of collisionless relics: neutrinos as *hot dark matter, and X particles having negligible thermal velocity as cold dark matter. 1990Gribbin & Rees Cosmic Coincidences (1992) iii. 79 Most of these difficulties would be resolved if the dominant dark matter consisted of particles that were ‘cold’ in the sense that they had low random speeds and therefore did not disperse and homogenise on galactic scales, as would neutrinos (which are, by contrast, described as ‘hot’ dark matter).
▸ slang (orig. U.S.). Of a person (originally a woman): sexually attractive; sexy. Cf. sense A. 8c and red-hot adj. 2b.
1926New Republic 17 Feb. 350/2 If you've forgotten your mythology, Aphrodite—more widely known as Venus—was the hot momma of goddesses. 1961A. Sillitoe Key to Door (1962) xvi. 211 Give me the address of a hot girl then. 1983J. Dillinger Adrenaline 103 Jillions of hot young guys. 1999Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) June 312/3 Do you own a dress that makes you look and feel really hot?
▸ hot button n. orig. and chiefly U.S. (a) a strongly emotive, popular, or controversial concern or issue, usually social or political; freq. attrib., esp. in hot-button issue; (b) a desire, need, or concern that motivates people to choose among consumer goods; (also) a product, idea, or form of advertising that exploits such motivation.
1966N.Y. Times 9 Jan. 7 Dr. Martin E. Marty, Lutheran theologian.., acknowledges that the ‘God Is Dead’ theologians have their finger on the ‘*hot button’. 1966N.Y. Times 8 Mar. 18 (advt.) The Guts of Salesmanship explains in detail the anatomy of a sales presentation:..how to find your prospects [sic] hot button. 1984New Yorker 20 Feb. 42/2 Stereo TV, which Jeff Berkowitz..called ‘one of the real hot buttons in terms of consumer purchasing’. 1985Times Higher Educ. Suppl. 17 Feb. 10/5 Affirmative action or ‘reverse discrimination’, as the Republicans call it, is a ‘hot-button’ issue. 1993Globe & Mail Rep. on Business Apr. 52/1 Elliot..gives a speech..that champions his product as one that hits the ‘hot button’ in the diaper industry. 2001London Rev. Bks. 22 Feb. 29/3 There are piles of tipsheets on the latest gossip: the buzz, the bids..the hot button.
▸ hot hatchback n. colloq. (orig. and chiefly Brit.) = hot hatch n.
1983Financial Times iv. (FT Motor Industry Survey) 6 A 130 mph GTi version which should cement VW's position at the top of the ‘*hot’ hatchback league. 2003Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. (Nexis) 21 May 2 Not all drivers want a city car that behaves like a hot hatchback, however, so Daihatsu has favoured a cross between a wedge and a cube for space efficiency.
▸ hot tub n. (also hotub) orig. U.S. a large (freq. outdoor) bath filled with hot aerated water, used by one or more people for recreation or physical therapy.
1973‘L. Elder’ (title) *Hot tubs: how to build, maintain & enjoy your own. 1981Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 10 Dec. f2/2 (advt.) Spas, hotubs..installation and maintenance guidance. 1988J. McInerney Story of my Life x. 155 The four of us in the hot tub drinking Cristal wrecked on Quaaludes and we're like joking around about having an orgy. 2002Independent 15 Feb. 11/1 A man who inhaled spray from an outdoor hot tub during a shopping trip to a garden centre died within days from Legionnaires' disease.
▸ hot-tubber n. orig. N. Amer. a person who bathes in a hot tub.
1979Harrowsmith 11 104/4 U.S. *hot tubbers take less of a soaking—prices are roughly 50 per cent less. 2004J. MacNiven Breakfast at Bucks 272 We would zoom in on the naked hot-tubbers at Esalen in Big Sur.
▸ too hot to handle: too difficult to control, manage, or deal with adequately (in early use freq. in Baseball, of a ball); too risky or provocative.
The influence of other senses is evident in several quots. Cf. quots. 1885, 1917 with sense A. 9d, quot. 1959 with sense A. 8c, and quot. 1969 with sense A. 9e and handle v.1 8.
1822A. Cunningham Sir Marmaduke Maxwell v. i. 49 My Lord Protector has resigned his sword; 'Twas much too hot to handle. 1885N.Y. Times 3 Sept. 2 Caskins went to base on balls, was advanced on Kirby's hit to Crane, which proved too hot to handle, and scored on Dunlap's sacrifice to McQuery. 1917N.Y. Tribune 7 June 11/1 ‘The last shot from the American ship’, says a bulletin from the State Department, ‘apparently was a clean hit.’ The German official scorers called it an error; but the American o.s., because it was too hot to handle, called it a clean hit. No runs. 1959Daily Mail 17 Oct. 3/1 All in true Mae West tradition. Said a Columbia Broadcasting System spokesman sorrowfully: ‘Some of her answers when the show was recorded were just too hot to handle.’ 1969Times 4 July 3/8 Many stolen works of art have been recovered recently..which suggests that thieves are finding them too hot to handle. 1992Washington Post 19–25 Oct. (National ed.) 31/1 More money for the stalled savings and loan cleanup was too hot to handle in an election year. 2000C. A. Ruud in R. J. Goldstein War for Public Mind vii. 253 When censors found a writer or editor too hot to handle, they would send his material up the line, where it might even reach the tsar.
▸ colloq. (orig. U.S.). hot to trot. Ready and willing, eager; esp. eager for sexual activity.
1950in R. Tomedi No Bugles, No Drums (1993) xix. Plate 2 (photograph of U.S. Army company sign) Hot to trot 2d B. 7th Reg. Fox co. 1978Washington Post (Nexis) 24 Apr. b1 We're supposed to respect Valerie because she isn't quite as hot to trot as her homely friend Thelma. 1982Computerworld 27 Dec. 49/4 They're hot to trot the first few days, but then they feel they can't do it and just sit back and depend on agencies. 2001B. Broady In this Block there lives Slag 44 Whatever happened to the student nurses of my youth—vivid, tender, blithe as spring throstles and self-parodically hot to trot..though seldom with me?
▸ Very keen on, enthusiastic about. Cf. sense A. 8a.
1982D. Dickenson Fighting Upstream in Canad. Fiction Mag. 30–198, I applied for compassionate leave, which I got, because I was..a member in good standing of the library club. The warden was hot to trot on reading. 1990Chron. Higher Educ. 19 Dec. a22/5 He's ‘not hot to trot’ on a proposal for a prepaid-tuition plan approved by voters in November. 1995Canad. Business May 34/2 Right now, everybody is hot to trot on small-capitalization stocks.
▸ Desirable, in demand; erotic, sexy.
1989Car & Driver Sept. 111/1 These hot-to-trot chariots include a shiny red Corvette..and an ultrafast twin-turbo Ruf Porsche. 1992More 28 Oct.–10 Nov. 51/1 He'd actually buy her hot-to-trot underwear and little red Lycra numbers with plunging necklines. 2002B Jan. 38/1 Kylie scores a double whammy in this year's awards. Not only is she hot to trot on a night out, she's spot on when it comes to the ‘less is more’ rule.
▪ III. hot, adv.
[OE. háte = OS. hêto, OHG. heiȥo; afterwards levelled with the adj.]
In a hot manner, hotly. (Usually hyphened to a following adj. or pple. used attrib.)
1. With great heat, at a high temperature; pungently.
c1000ælfric Hom. I. 424 Isenan clutas hate glowende. 13..K. Alis. 572 (Bodl. MS.) Þe briȝth sonne so hoote shoon. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 6572 With melles of yren hate glowand. 1513Douglas æneis i. vi. 185 Ane hundreth altaris..Hait birning full of Saba sence. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. viii. 60 The Sunne shines hot. 1730–46Thomson Autumn 438 Adhesive to the track Hot-steaming. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xxix. 292 With hot-tingling fingers.
2. fig. Ardently, eagerly, violently, severely, angrily, etc.: see the adj.
1375Barbour Bruce x. 693 Þe Erll was handlyt þair sa hat. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 59 Ther loved no wight hotter in his lyve. c1460Towneley Myst. xiii. 228 A sekenes I feyll that haldys me fulle haytt. 1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 83 b, He tooke the matter very hotte. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 247 'Tween frozen conscience and hot-burning will. 1795Nelson 27 Aug. in Nicolas Disp. (1845) II. 75 The French cavalry fired so hot on our Boats. 1816Byron Siege Cor. vi, Fast and hot Against them pour'd the ceaseless shot. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xv. 126 As soon as I got started I took out after the raft, hot and heavy, right down the tow-head. 1922Joyce Ulysses 160 If a fellow gave them trouble being lagged they let him have it hot and heavy in the bridewell. 1924T. E. Lawrence Let. 19 Mar. (1938) 459 A[rabia] D[eserta] is selling hot in U.S.A. 1927Melody Maker Aug. 782/2 The verse is then taken ‘hot’ by the trumpet. 1928Ibid. Feb. 184/2 They are..played ‘hot’. 1934T. S. Eliot Rock i. 12 The shareholders ain't there, and their divvies ain't 'ardly there either, 'cos they paid too 'ot for their shares.
▪ IV. hot, v.|hɒt|
[OE. hátian, f. hát hot a.: cf. OHG. heiȥên to be hot. In later use formed afresh from the adj.]
†1.
a. intr. To be or become hot. (Only in OE.)
c825Vesp. Psalter xxxviii. 4 [xxxix. 3] Hatade heorte min binnan me.
b. With up. To become hot. Also fig.
In quot. 1909 the passive use is somewhat unusual.
1909W. Owen Let. 23 Aug. (1967) 55, I did take a holiday, on account of the day being so ‘hotted up’. 1936Wodehouse Laughing Gas xiii. 146 It did not need a razorlike intelligence to show me that things were hotting up, and that flight was the only course. 1958Daily Mail 3 Sept. 1/2 The cold war being fought out between Britain and Iceland in the rich fishing grounds of the northern seas hotted up yesterday. 1967M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World iv. 132 The higher the frequency the more the insulator will hot up. 1969Times 28 July 18/6 (heading) Pacific air route battle hots up.
2. trans. To heat. (Now colloq. or vulgar.)
1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 7 a, Take two tyles that be hoted. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 680 Pele⁓thronian Lapitho gave the bit And hotted rings. 1847–78Halliwell, Hot, to heat, or make hot. Notts. 1878M. E. Braddon Open Verd. xix. 139 I'll go and get things hotted up for you. 1881Society 2 Feb., Water hotted and a steaming bowl of punch prepared. 1903M. Crommelin Crimson Lilies (1913) xxiv. 176 You put something on your outside, while I hot up some tea..to put in your inside. 1928Galsworthy Swan Song ii. iv. 138 Let me hot up your stew. 1952S. Selvon Brighter Sun ix. 188 Urmilla went to hot the food.
3. fig. or transf. with up. spec. (a) To become ‘warm’ or unpleasantly excited, near the point of anger. Cf. also sense 1b. (b) pass. Of an internal-combustion engine, a car, etc.: to be ‘tuned up’; to have the power increased so as to be capable of higher speeds. Also trans. and in ppl. a., and in extended uses.
1923Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves x. 108 The atmosphere was consequently more or less hotted up when Cyril..breezed down centre. 1928Morning Post 20 Oct. 10/7 This car.. is not in any sense a ‘hotted up’ Morris six-cylinder. 1939R. Lehmann No More Music 56 Jan: Excitable girl. Miriam: You seem to have hotted her up nicely. 1945Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XLIX. 205/1 The Americans have had considerable success in ‘hotting up’ engines once intended for airline use. 1946A. Lee German Air Force 13 The special hotted-up engines flown by ace pilots. 1950Hansard Commons CCCCLXXII. 2036 Our present submarines are being ‘hotted-up’ with fast battery drive. 1958J. Carew Wild Coast xii. 161 The drummerboys hotted up the rhythm. 1958Spectator 6 June 740/2 The Observer complains that Mr. Allsop's style has ‘the hotted-up, black-and-white, metaphor- and smart-allusion-besotted quality typical of one kind of popular journalism’. 1958Times 12 Aug. 7/2 The General Assembly is the place to hot things up. 1959Listener 9 Apr. 628/1 Hotting up hymn tunes was the absolute end. 1960Guardian 5 Jan. 4/4 A rather hotted-up radio receiver. 1962Listener 5 Apr. 595/2 The hotted-up economic and ideological conflicts of the latter part of the nineteenth century. 1968Hot Car Oct. 61 If you hot up your car, don't forget to step up your braking power. 1973‘M. Innes’ Appleby's Answer xvii. 150 Far from cooling up, he might hot up, and simply jump the gun. 1973Guardian 28 May 2 Sir Alec Douglas-Home..was launching into..the need to avoid actions which would ‘hot up this cod war’.
▪ V. hot
obs. pa. tense and pple. of hit; see also hight. |