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scorcher
noun- a very hot day UK, 1874
- Gonna be a scorcher today. — Marvin Wald and Albert Maltz, The Naked City, 1947
- A scorcher. It was my father’s phrase and came back to me as familiarly, when I opened my eyes, as the heard reveille of my childhood. — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 322, 1949
- “Ain’t this a scorcher, kid?” — Jim Thompson, A Swell-Looking Babe, p. 67, 1954
- Today was a scorcher. This Chevy doesn’t have air conditioning. — Point Break, 1991
- in ball games, an extremely hard shot UK, 1977
- [S]ooner or later, out would come another scorcher, which usually also missed the mattress and blasted the bare wall so hard I half expected the ball to stick. — David James Duncan, The Brothers K, p. 118, 1992
- [R]ipple the side-netting with a scorcher of a shot from just outside the area. — The Guardian, 9 March 2004
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