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[ hot-buht-n ] / ˈhɒtˈbʌt n /
adjectiveexciting strong feelings; highly charged; emotional: hot-button issues. Origin of hot-buttonFirst recorded in 1985–90 Words nearby hot-buttonhotbed, hot-blooded, hotbox, hot-bulb engine, hot buttered rum, hot-button, hot cake, hot cap, hot-cathode tube, hotch, hotcha Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for hot-buttonIn a hot-button cover story interview with Vanity Fair, Lawrence explained it best. Butts, Brawls, and Bill Cosby: The Biggest Celebrity Scandals of 2014
|Kevin Fallon|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST However, the ongoing bloody conflict between Israel and Palestine is apparently still too scorching a hot-button issue to touch. Knicks’ Amar’e Stoudemire Posts Pro-Palestine Photo, Allegedly Cyberbullies Israeli-Born MTV VJ|Robert Silverman|July 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST Although any hot-button issue can lay bare the way fear fuels money in politics, the gun issue does it best. Money and Guns: How We Escape Our Existential Dread|James Poulos|April 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST Even celebrities weighed in on the hot-button topic of the moment. Mitt Romney’s Debate Performance: Best Tweets About GOP Nominee’s Love for Big Bird|Nina Strochlic|October 4, 2012|DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for hot-button
nouninformal - a controversial subject or issue that is likely to arouse strong emotions
- (as modifier)the hot-button issue of abortion
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