Meaning & use
hot
Having a high temperature, or, informally, currently very popular, exciting, or in great demand.
See it in a sentence
The soup was too hot to eat straight off the stove.
Everyone says the new phone is hot right now, selling out within hours.
A note on using this word
Hot has two very different common senses: literal temperature and figurative popularity or excitement, so context determines the meaning.
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Another way to use it
2. adjective
Sexually attractive, according to informal slang.
His friends kept teasing him about how hot his new date looked.
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