hot stuff

noun

: someone or something unusually good

Synonyms

• beaut
• beauty
• bee's knees
• cat's meow
• corker
• crackerjack
• crackajack
• daisy
• dandy
• dilly
• doozy
• doozie
• doozer
• dream
• honey
• humdinger
• hummer
• jim-dandy
• knockout
• lollapalooza
• lulu [slang]
• nifty
• peach
• pip
• pippin
• ripper
• ripsnorter
• snorter
• sockdolager
• sockdologer
• standout
• sweetheart

Examples of hot stuff in a Sentence

His music was hot stuff back then.

The new guy in her office is hot stuff.

Recent Examples on the Web

By 1974, Kissinger, the brilliant, all-but-anonymous Harvard academic, was hot stuff. —Ted Koppel, CBS News, 7 May 2023

Happy birthday, hot stuff! —Good Housekeeping, 2 May 2023

The players go from suntan lotion to hot stuff. —BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2021

Strip that hot stuff off your bed and replace it with light, airy fabrics like linen, cotton, or bamboo. —Kj Callihan, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2021

There are other clients, of course, but back in April, Ferri took all his hot stuff — and that of others — to historic downtown Sanford. —Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2023

Katy Perry as a flaming hot Cheeto Look out, hot stuff coming through! —Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022

However, climate change is affecting the company’s ability to make the hot stuff. —Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022

More hot stuff:The perfect chicken wing is hard to find. —Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1894, in the meaning defined above