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Hot Potato

Definition: Hot Potato

Hot Potato

Noun

1. A difficult situation; "he dropped the topic like a hot potato".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Hot Potato

English words defined with "hot potato": Potato whisky. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hot Potato

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Hot Potato (1984)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Hot Potato

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hopscotch, Hangman, Hot Potato, and Ha, Ha, Ha: A Rulebook of Children's Games (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Hot Potato

Computer Images:
Hot Potato

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Expression: Hot Potato

Expression using "hot potato": drop smth. like a hot potato. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hot Potato

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hot potato

142

hot potato rubber stamp

13

hot potato stamp

11

hot potato salad

9

hot potato game

6

german hot potato recipe salad

5

hot potato software

4

blue hot potato red salad

4

hot potato recipe salad

4

blue hot potato recipe red salad

3

download hot potato

2

hot potato wiggles

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hot Potato

Language Translations for "hot potato"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

опасна работа, неприятна работа (palaver). (various references)

   

Czech

  

utéci od nìèeho (drop smth. like a hot potato). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kényes probléma, kényelmetlen probléma, cikis dolog, cikis ügy. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ホスホン酸 (electric carpet, hockey, hook, hook and eye, hopper, hot, hot balloon, hot corner, hot curler, hot dog, hot jazz, hot laboratory, hot line, hot money, hot news, hot rod, hot spot, hot stand-by, hot war, hotcakes, hot-key, hotpants, hotplate, Hottentot, pancakes, paper fastener, phosphonic acid, stapler). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ホットポテト . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

othay otatopay

   

Russian 

  

щекотливый вопрос (delicate matter, nice question). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ปัญหาหนัก. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hot Potato

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-o-o-o-p-t-t-t"

-3 letters: potato, tattoo.

-4 letters: photo, potto, tooth.

-5 letters: atop, hoop, hoot, oath, opah, otto, path, phat, phot, pooh, that, toot, toph.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-o-o-o-p-t-t-t"
 

+5 letters: photoautotroph.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hot Potato


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 6F 74      50 6F 74 61 74 6F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101111 01110100 00100000 01010000 01101111 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#111 &#116 &#32 &#80 &#111 &#116 &#97 &#116 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 0074      0050 006F 0074 0061 0074 006F

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4281862508186678681

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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