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hot
adjective- stolen US, 1924
- One night, we were cruising about and just happened to drive by a lot where I’d parked a hot car some months before, in the summer. — Neal Cassady, The First Third, p. 194, 3 July 1949
- And even a detailed account of the summer I spent in Denver two years ago, when Hart and I drove hot cars up into the mountains. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 239, 1952
- “What about this hot-car ring?” said the man with the pipe[.] — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 87, 1953
- A guy that bought hot cars and wrecked them for their parts. — Jim Thompson, After Dark, My Sweet, p. 85, 1955
- “Don’t be daft, if it is the bogeys [police] how can they touch us?” “With two hot motors round the back? Who are you kidding?” — Derek Bickerton, Payroll, p. 43, 1959
- He still had some hot goods Marsha Lee had stashed in his closet, though[.] — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 68, 1960
- I was also worried about a hot car connected at my mother’s home. — Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957–1969, p. 422, 16 August 1963: Letter to Carolyn Cassady
- You could walk into one or another room in the house and get a hot fur coat, a good camera, fine perfume, anything from hot women to hot cars[.] — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, pp. 90–91, 1964
- A brand new gun that sells for a hundred and ten bucks if you buy it legally and maybe twenty hot, but no less. — Mickey Spillane, Last Cop Out, p. 57, 1972
- Few prisoners in the antiquated stone jail spend more than a week as guests of the county and the charge usually is hot checks. — Jan Hutson, The Chicken Ranch, p. 6, 1980
- LAGARTO: This car is hot. MARLENE: What do you mean? Stolen? — Repo Man, 1984
- We also gotta get rid of all those cars. It looks like Sam’s hot car lot outside. — Reservoir Dogs, 1992
- wanted by the police US, 1928
- Don’t laugh so loud, Buster. I’m hot–I busted out. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 121, 1952
- Even if I wasn’t actually what was called “hot,” I was now going to be under surveillance[.] — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 97, 1964
- I soon got hot and the police were looking for me all over town. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 96, 1973
- suspect UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 63, 1996
- dangerous for criminal activity UK, 1618
- “That neighborhood is too hot,” he said loudly. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 79, 1953
- “Man, I told you before I don’t want you all coming to turn on here,” Lou said to Geo. “This pad’s getting too hot.” — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 166, 1960
- dangerous to other criminals because of co-operation with the police US
- “He was hot,” Veal said, explaining that “hot” was street slang for cooperating with police. “The word was out, he had to go, too.” — Washington Post, p. C1, 14 December 2003
- under enemy fire US, 1864
Although a critical term in the Vietnam war, it was coined not there, but in the US Civil War 100 years earlier. - “The new landing zone was hot.” — Kenneth Mertel, Year of the Horse, p. 180, 1968
- One of the helicopter’s pilots had reported that the LZ was “hot,” that is, Viet Cong were waiting below. — Seymour Hersh, My Lai 4, p. 45, 1970
- Night ain’t the best time to go in hot. — Ronald J. Glasser, 365 Days, p. 109, 1971
- We’re down, Eagle Thrust–we’re hit. We got a hot L.Z. here. — Apocalypse Now, 1979
- It was what they called a hot LZ, a landing zone swarming with enemy troops and alive with sniper fire from the moment they set down[.] — Peter Goldman and Tony Fuller, Charlie Company, p. 69, 1983
- (used of a weapons system) activated, armed US, 1962
- He watched his weapons indicators go green, signifying that his ordinance was “hot.” — T. E. Cruice, Wings of Gold III, p. 196, 1989
- Maverick pulls up, makes a quick turn, takes all the weapons off safe, “going hot” and they throw everything that gunship carries right into the exact middle of the camp. — Dennis Marvicsin and Jerold Greenfield, Maverick, p. 136, 1990
- poisoned UK
- Hot heroin–poisoned heroin[.] — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 209, 2002
- good US
- Stroudsburg wasn’t such a hot school anyway[.] — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 10, 1970
- excellent; used for describing music or musicians that create excitement US, 1866
- [A]in’t that boy hot! — Frederic Ramsey Junior, Chicago Documentary, p. 31, 1944
- WAYNE: What do you think of Mickey and Mallory? CHUCK: Hot. JEFF: Hot. STEVE: Totally hot. — Natural Born Killers, 1994
- “I never had any intention of disappearing,” he [rapper, Too Short] says now, “that’s why I appeared on all the hottest shit” — Hip-Hop Connection, p. 35, March 2001
- (used of jazz) traditional and spirited, as opposed to modern US, 1924
- When we talked about a musician who played hot, we would say he could swing or he couldn’t swing, meaning what kind of effect did he have on the band. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 142, 1946
- popular US
- I had lunch with him a couple of weeks ago. A real schnorrer, but sort of likeable, and apparently he’s hot over there right now. — J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey, pp. 136–137, 1961
- We’s so much hotter now. Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Elvis. — Francesca Lia Block, Cherokee Bat, p. 232, 1992
- sexual, sensuous US, 1931
- Don’t try to get too hot with a girl in public, or you’ll wind up with the cold shoulder. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 222, 1948
- Winston’s, the greatest nightclub on earth (also the hottest) in Clifford Street[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 26, 1962
- [I] even had my special favourites that always got me hotter while there were others I always avoided. — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 334, 1980
- (used of a striptease dance) very sexual US
- A stripper who can maximize the quantity of bumps and grinds she can do during the chorus of a popular song is known in the profession as working “hot.” — William Green, Strippers and Coochers, p. 165, 1977
- attractive, good-looking US
- He was hot, wasn’t he? — Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982
- angry UK, 1225
- MR. WHITE: Joe, trust me on this, you’ve made a mistake. He’s a good kid. I understand you’re hot, you’re super-fuckin’ pissed. — Reservoir Dogs, 1992
- brief, quick US
- He may have been hip to his hop, but the muta made him fly right for a hot minute. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 96, 1946
- in sports betting, generating heavy betting; favoured UK, 1882
- This judge bets college games through a buddy of his, a lawyer. All Southeast Conference. He lays it on the hot side, the favorite, every time. — Elmore Leonard, Pronto, p. 9, 1993
- (used of a set in the television and film industries) fully prepared for filming US
- — Tony Miller and Patricia George, Cut! Print!, p. 88, 1977
- — Ralph S. Singleton, Filmaker’s Dictionary, p. 82, 1990
- drunk BERMUDA
- — Peter A. Smith and Fred M. Barritt, Bermewjan Vurds, 1985
▶ hot as Mapp’s mill-yard
very hot BARBADOS- — Frank A. Collymore, Barbadian Dialect, p. 71, 1965
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