Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Glowing hot; very hot.
- adj. Heated, as with excitement, anger, or enthusiasm: a red-hot speech.
- adj. Very recent; new: red-hot information.
- n. See hot dog.
- n. A small, usually round red candy strongly flavored with cinnamon.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Red with heat; heated to redness: as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls.
- Hence Extreme; violent; ardent: as, a red-hot political speech.
Wiktionary
- adj. Heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color.
- adj. hyperbolic very hot
- adj. Emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm.
- adj. Having a very strong sexual appeal.
- adj. Very fresh, new, recent and up to date.
- n. dated, US alternative spelling of red hot.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Red with heat; heated to redness. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a frankfurter served hot on a bun
- adj. very fast; capable of quick response and great speed
- adj. newest or most recent
- adj. glowing red with heat
- adj. characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement
- adj. having strong sexual appeal
Examples
“Expectations for this company were red-hot, that is why we downgraded it, said BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis, who lowered his rating on the shares days before.”
“Expectations for this company were red-hot, that is why we downgraded it," said BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis, who lowered his rating on the shares days before.”
“They reached the finals of the Pac-10 tournament before losing to a red-hot Washington squad, and they decisively outplayed Louisville 77-62 in their first-round NCAA Tournament game.”
“SINGAPORE—Private home sales in Singapore rose 29% in April from a month earlier, in a sign that recent government measures to cool the city-state's red-hot property market have yet to temper strong underlying demand.”
The Wall Street Journal: Singapore Private Home Sales Keep Rising
“A log in the fire spit, sending up a spray of red-hot ash.”
“I took two tall candles from the mantel and lit them with the red-hot coals in the fireplace, setting them on the floor in front of me.”
“Justin was red-hot as an artist and was going to break off to launch a solo career once the latest *NSYNC tour was over so, taking off from that night at A.D., I hit him up on the drive home, and told him my sister would love tickets to their L.A. date at the Pond in Anaheim.”
“SINGAPORE — Most Asian stock markets were higher on Thursday, though mainland property developers in Hong Kong and China were hit by Beijing's latest measures to cool red-hot property prices.”
“I mean, I liked him before and wanted to like him now more than ever, that red-hot devil, that Bill uh-huh Clinton.”
“As Gamsakhurdia put it, subversive minorities “should be chopped up” and “burned out with a red-hot iron from the Georgian nation.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘red-hot’.
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fire place
place to place 'fire' words
fire eater, field of fire, campfire, backfire, cannon fire, cease-fire, crown fire, center-fire, direct fire, fire pit, cookfire, fire tongs and 111 more...
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red phrases /words
how red is used
red bag, red ant, red-armed, red ale, red alert, red alder, on red, red adder, in red, in the red, bushy red mint, California red scale and 764 more...
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Hot Bodies
Hot and fiery words associated with the human body and spirit. I added furfuration only because it needed some attention.
splenitive, spitfire, hot-livered, fire-eating, hot-headed, hot-tempered, hot-spirited, full-hot, ignipotent, hotbrain, hothead, fire-eyed and 8 more...
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calefactory
just plain hot
hot as blue blazes, frowsty, simoomy, scorcher, solfatara, (hot) dog days, burninga, chilidog days, red-hot, saburration, whot, sudatorium and 11 more...
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Reds
Inspired by hernesheir's Greens list.
blood red, red, red-backed, redbait, red-bellied, redbird, red-blooded, redbreast, red-breasted, redbrick, red-brown, redbud and 51 more...
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Candies
Just a handful.
wine gum, polkagris, bêtise de Cambrai, aniseed twist, gianduja, salmiakki, red-hot, croquant, pasteli, gozinaqi, chikki, pé-de-moleque and 14 more...
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"Hot" Adjectives
hot, balmy, moist, summery, tropical, equatorial, lush, steamy, sticky, stifling, sultry, sweaty and 23 more...
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