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Definition: Red Hot |
Red HotNoun1. A frankfurter served hot on a bun. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Red HotSynonyms: hot dog (n), hotdog (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heat | Red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning. Verb: hot, piping hot; like a furnace, like an oven; burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Red Hot |
| Specialty definitions using "red hot": Dunstan ♦ Oven ♦ Poker. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "red hot": incandescent. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hey, Red Hot Chili Peppers, do you want to appear on a Krusty comeback special (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) A mark burnt into him with a red hot iron (Lady Jane; writing credit: Chris Bryant; David Edgar) Red hot. But wait a minute, if you know, that means that they know, and if they know then we are f-- (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) Oh? Ass full of red hot coals (Sealab 2021; writing credit: John J. Miller; Adam Reed) Our team is red hot, your team ain't doodley squat (Cats & Dogs; writing credit: John Requa; Glenn Ficarra) | |
Lyrics | Red hot mama (Hair Of The Dog; performing artist: Nazareth) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Red Hot Redheads (2001) A Red Hot Romance (1913) Perfect Pink 8: Red Hot (2001) Red Hot Wife (2000) | |
Song Titles | By The Way (performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers) Under The Bridge (performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers) Californication (performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers) Otherside (performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers) Scar Tissue (performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Red hot Republicans on the Democratic gridiron. "The San Domingo war dance". Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Steel mill, Massillon, Ohio. Giant red hot ingot being taken out of soaking pit. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Josh Billings | The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it. |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "red hot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Indonesian | panas terik (torrid). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 赤熱 , 灼熱 (incandescence, scorching heat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゃくねつ (incandescence, scorching heat), せきねつ. (various references) | |
Manx | jiarg-cheh (burning, burning hot, scalding hot). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | edray othay.(various references) | |
Scottish | beòlach (ashes with hot embers, red hot part of fire). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fervens, fervente, ferventes, ferventis. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dehort. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: doeth, doter, horde, other, throe, trode. | |
-2 letters: doer, dore, dote, doth, herd, hero, hoed, hoer, ohed, redo, rode, rote, thro, toed, tore, trod. | |
-3 letters: doe, dor, dot, edh, eth, her, het, hod, hoe, hot, ode, ore, ort, red, ret, rho, rod, roe, rot, ted, the, tho, tod, toe, tor. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, eh. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: dehorts, frothed, shorted, theroid, thorned, throned, torched, trothed, worthed. | |
+2 letters: authored, bothered, chordate, chortled, crotched, dehorted, dethrone, exhorted, goatherd, hectored, mothered, outheard, pothered, potsherd, theropod, threnode, threnody, throated, throbbed, thronged, thyreoid, tochered, trophied. | |
+3 letters: atrophied, bethorned, betrothed, brothered, charioted, chondrite, chordates, crocheted, dehorting, dethroned, dethroner, dethrones, doughtier, dowitcher, drouthier, endotherm, enthroned, erythroid, euthyroid, goatherds, godfather, godmother, handwrote, heartwood, heterodox, holstered, hotdogger, hysteroid, inthroned, octahedra, outrushed, overhated, potholder, potsherds, reclothed, retouched, rhodolite, rhodonite, rhytidome, shortened, smothered, studhorse, theorised, theorized, theropods, threefold, threnodes, threnodic, threshold, throttled, trihedron, undershot, unthroned. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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