hot linkn.
/ˈhɒt ˌlɪŋk/, U.S. /ˈhɑt ˌlɪŋk/ 1. U.S. A sausage, esp. a spicy sausage of a type that is produced joined end to end in a chain. Usually in plural. Also hot-link sausage. Cf. link n.2 2c.
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1907 Marshfield (Wisconsin) Times 31 July William Wenzel makes sausages fit for a king, and his factory will make a name for itself in the coming year. A couple of hot links presented by Mr. Wenzel served as a most acceptable treat to the Times force Tuesday afternoon.
1958 Washington Post 6 Nov. c14 (advt.) Italian style hot link sausage.
1985 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 19 Feb. ii. 1 On those days when the guys finished their runs, they'd come back and find Cookie in the back parking lot, barbecuing chicken and hot links and ribs.
1993 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. 25 Feb. w3/2 ‘We're doing a mild pork and beef sausage, a spicy and the hot link.’ Asked about flavoring for the latter, Mr. Campbell says, ‘cayenne, garlic, and I'm not going to tell you what else’.
2000 Dallas Morning News (Electronic ed.) 18 Feb. A plate of beef, sausage, ham or hot links runs $5.99.
2. Computing.
a. A link between documents or applications which enables data from one source to be incorporated into another; spec. a facility which automatically updates material in a document when an alteration is made to a linked document.
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1986 Electronics 14 Apr. 26/2 Dynamic updating, will allow what are sometimes referred to as interapplication hot links. Information destined for input into a single Windows application program will be immediately funneled to all other Windows applications.
1989 PC-Computing (Nexis) Feb. 72 A hot-link capability automatically updates the graphics every time you update the spreadsheet.
1996 Macworld (Electronic ed.) 1 Jan. 121 Full Contact is an integrated address book, to-do-list, and calendar manager, with hot links between related information.
2005 Hypertext 05: Proc. Sixteenth ACM Conf. Hypertext & Hypermedia (Assoc. Computing Machinery) (Electronic text) 37/1 In the pre-web hypertext literature several solutions were proposed in order to connect occurrences of the same information in different documents: disappeared but not forgotten have been the proposals for hot links, warm links and transclusions.
b. = hyperlink n.
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1989 Dr. Dobb's Jrnl. Mar. 123/2 The Dynabook..was the..100 percent flat-screen computer Xerox PARC proposed in 1976 as the future of computing. You..read it like a book, thumbing the screen to flip pages and touching hot-link keywords to traverse a hypertext thread.
1993 Compute Sept. 75/1 You'll notice immediately that some words are printed in colour and are underlined. These words are hot links to other articles. Click on one, and in a few seconds you'll be transferred to the related article.
2006 E. Bott & W. Leonhard Using Microsoft Office 2003 (Student-Teacher ed.) xii. 361 Select the Use Ctrl+Click to Follow Hyperlink check box to ensure that you never accidentally chase a hot link by inadvertently clicking it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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