hot stuffn.adj.

1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. xix. 266 I was below, mixing a toothful of hot-stuff for the Captain.

1857 A. W. Bradford Rep. Surrogate's Court County of N.-Y. 4 314 Liquor was ordered three times in four hours—brandy for McKeon, and hot stuff for her and a companion.

1891 McKean County Miner (Smethport, Pa.) 17 July 1/8 [He] was never a hard drinker, but sometimes when the company..was especially convivial, and the hot stuff particularly good,..he would imbibe just enough of the potent toddy or punch to make him a little mellow and hilarious.

1905 A. H. Gansser Hist. Bay County, Michigan iv. 86/1 His one failing was the genuine Scotch ‘hot stuff,’ which he usually bought by the barrel.

2002 D. McKnight From Hunting to Drinking vii. 84 People were also bringing in wine, port, and ‘hot stuff’, i.e., rum and whiskey.

1884 C. F. Lummis Let. 10 Oct. in Lett. from Southwest (1989) 22 I will tell you in my next about the cowboys I saw at Junction City, Abilene and Salina. They are ‘hot stuff’.

1898 N.Y. Times 17 Apr. 6/3 Our golfers are beginning to realize that college players are, as the devotee of the links would express it, ‘hot stuff’.

1908 Varsity Vices May 5/1 Gad, though, but she's tremendously hot stuff, the little devil.

1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 92 I've been to the Moulin Rouge,..and I've been to all the Bohemian cafés. Hot stuff!

1931 W. Deeping Road viii. 86 I'm getting my new M.-B. next week. Hot stuff. She'll do eighty.

1944 M. Paneth Branch Street 64 The men say of her, ‘Joan is hot stuff.’

1965 D. Lodge Brit. Mus. is falling Down vii. 125 The story of his affair with Mother... It's hot stuff, as we used to say at school.

1983 R. Curtis & R. Atkinson Black Adder in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 29/1 There are some letters I found in my father's tent—and, by God, they're hot stuff.

2000 A. Taylor Where Roses Fade (2003) li. 360 You and I know Mattie was a bit of a goer. Trouble with girls who are hot stuff is that someone tends to get burnt.

1924 G. C. Henderson Keys to Crookdom ix. 117 Pawnshops and second-hand stores establish a reputation for handling ‘hot stuff’ and there are very few such establishments that will refuse to buy from a known thief.

1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed vii. 51 So you're handling a bit of hot stuff as well as joy-popping?

1980 J. Wainwright Dominoes v. 117 He dealt in hot stuff, didn't he?

2007 Daily News (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 23 July 7 Scrap metal dealers are trying to ensure that the metals they buy are not ‘hot stuff’.

1928 Punch 21 Mar. 328/1 His father had influence.., being a frightfully hot-stuff surgeon.

1935 L. Hughes Little Ham 59 I'm gonna buy my girl a hot stuff dress right straight from Fifth Avenue.

2002 LA Weekly (Nexis) 3 May (Music section) 55 You get inventive, non-band performance videos..made by hotstuff indie filmmakers.