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Definition of hot stuff
: someone or something unusually good
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Synonyms for hot stuff
Synonyms
- beaut,
- beauty,
- bee's knees,
- cat's meow,
- corker,
- crackerjack
- (also crackajack),
- daisy,
- dandy,
- dilly,
- doozy
- (or doozie also doozer),
- dream,
- honey,
- humdinger,
- hummer,
- jim-dandy,
- knockout,
- lollapalooza,
- lulu
- [slang],
- nifty,
- peach,
- pip,
- pippin,
- ripper,
- ripsnorter,
- snorter,
- sockdolager
- (or sockdologer),
- standout,
- sweetheart
Examples of hot stuff in a Sentence
His music was hot stuff back in those days.
The new guy in her office is hot stuff.
Recent Examples on the Web By filtering for infrared scientists are able to peer through the visible stuff that gets in the way, like gas and dust and other material, to see heat, and in space there’s a lot of hot stuff.
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Wired, "Space Photos of the Week: Reading the Universe in Infrared," 19 Oct. 2019 Nowhere else is our modern dependence on (and possible uses of) the hot stuff better exemplified than New York, a city literally built on steam.
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Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, "Steam Power: Still Moving Us, Even in the 21st Century," 30 June 2019 Capsaicin, the hot stuff in hot peppers, can do the same thing (Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, online, Feb. 10, 2018).
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Houston Chronicle, "Vicks VapoRub for poison ivy itch," 8 July 2018 Those crews use the hot stuff whenever the weather is relatively warm and dry.
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Grant Segall, cleveland.com, "Thumpity thump: Potholes are 'worse than usual' this year (photos)," 12 Mar. 2018 In the 1940s and 1950s, Gloria Grahame was hot stuff in Hollywood.
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Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "'Annihilation,' 'Game Night,' best-picture Oscar marathons and more new movies," 22 Feb. 2018
See MoreThese example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hot stuff.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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The first known use of hot stuff was in 1894
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