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Hot

adjective

(compar. hotter; superl. hottest)

1.

Used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning. "Hot water" , "A hot August day" , "A hot stuffy room" , "She's hot and tired" , "A hot forehead"

2.

Characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense. Synonym: raging. "A hot engagement" , "A raging battle" , "The river became a raging torrent"

3.

Extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm. "A hot topic" , "A hot new book" , "A hot love affair" , "A hot argument"

4.

(color) bold and intense.

5.

Sexually excited or exciting. "Hot pants"

6.

Recently stolen or smuggled. "A hot car"

7.

Very fast; capable of quick response and great speed. Synonyms: blistering, red-hot. "A blistering pace" , "Got off to a hot start" , "In hot pursuit" , "A red-hot line drive"

8.

Wanted by the police.

9.

Producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves. Synonym: spicy. "Jalapeno peppers are very hot"

10.

Performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy. "He's hot tonight"

11.

Very popular or successful. "Cabbage patch dolls were hot last season"

12.

Very unpleasant or even dangerous. "In the hot seat" , "In hot water"

13.

Newest or most recent. Synonym: red-hot. "Red-hot information"

14.

Having or bringing unusually good luck. "The dice are hot tonight"

15.

Very good; often used in the negative.

16.

Newly made.

17.

Having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm.

18.

Of a seeker; very near to the object sought.

19.

Having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity. "A hot laboratory"

20.

Charged or energized with electricity. Synonym: live. "A live wire"

21.

Marked by excited activity.

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... grass and blossoms and put a band of music behind it to tempt men to walk out on it, to say nothin' of a slidin' path leadin' down to it, all soft with velvet and rosy with temptations, if a lot of hot-headed youth and weak men and generous open-minded men who wuzn't lookin' for anything wrong, should fall into it and be drownded for so much a head, she sez the man who dug the pit and got so much apiece for the men he led in and ruined would be more to blame than the victims, ...

— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley

... how he holds up "de obeshay," as Saint Paul did the magistrate, in terror to those who "play 'possum w'en de grass too t'ick," or "stick t'orn in he finger so he can't pick 'nuff cotton w'en de sun too hot." With our withdrawal is removed a restraint which has chilled the active devotion of the assembly, and soon the singing begins again, accompanied now, however, by the heavy tramp of feet and the clapping of hands keeping time to the sad, wailing ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, - No. 97, January, 1876 • Various

... but saw nothing of his daughter. The sun was hot, and at length he came to a buffalo wallow in which some water was standing, and drank and sat down to rest. A little way off on the prairie he saw a herd of buffalo. As the man sat there by the wallow, trying ...

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