hot take

noun

: a quickly produced, strongly worded, and often deliberately provocative or sensational opinion or reaction (as in response to current news)

… an inflammatory hot take about Cam Newton's quarterback style …

—Zac Al-Khateeb

Rash action and having "a hot take" are the coin of the realm now, not methodical deliberation and rational consideration.

—Vahe Gregorian

Yeah, there's always more than two sides to sports labor disagreements. But that didn't stop the very many hot takes over the last few days, reacting to this winter's free agency.

—Barry Rozner

Examples of hot take in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This time last year, Jay Bhattacharya’s main claim to fame was, in essence, a hot take on COVID. —Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026

What is your hottest outdoor hot take? —Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2026

Open any social media app, and there's no shortage of opinions and hot takes about the military attack on Iran by the United States and Israel, but Razani prefers to let his art speak for him. —Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026

Sign up for Ced's Corner Sign up for Cedric Golden's weekly newsletter which drops each Tuesday with hot takes from the unique perspective of the Statesman's resident sports columnist who was named the 2025 National Sports Media Association's Texas sportswriter of the year. —Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 1 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

2012, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for hot take

• awake
• backache
• beefsteak
• betake
• cheesecake
• cupcake
• daybreak
• earthquake
• eastlake
• forsake
• handshake
• headache