Definition of hothead
: a hotheaded person
What's Trending Now
More Trending Words
Examples of hothead in a Sentence
Working on the project with such a hothead has been unpleasant.
Recent Examples of hothead from the Web
-
Seeing his extraordinary potential, D'Amato enrolled him in his gym and welcomed him in his home, determined to turn the mercurial hothead into a world champion.
-
Even so, Curtiz remained an explosive personality on the sets of his films, earning a reputation as a hothead.
-
He isn’t known as a hothead, and his disciplinary record is pretty clean.
-
Perhaps in a new era of virtual reality, the costs of news production will rise, and so, too, will the barriers to entry, pushing the bloggers and political hotheads out of the game and restoring objectivity.
-
Coltish, feral and passionately in love, Mr. Grigolo’s Mario is a true hothead.
-
He’s disciplined and willing to fire a hothead like Anthony Scaramucci, whose personal agenda threatened to torch the White House.
-
Other political hotheads: longtime U.S. Sen. John McCain, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and former President Bill Clinton.
-
Bob Corker is known around Washington as a sensible pragmatist, not a thin-skinned hothead.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hothead.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of hothead
1660
HOTHEAD Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of hothead for English Language Learners
-
: a person who gets angry easily : a hotheaded person
HOTHEAD Defined for Kids
Definition of hothead for Students
: a person who is easily excited or angered
—
hotheaded
\-ˈhed-əd\ adjectiveLearn More about hothead
-
See words that rhyme with hothead Spanish Central: Translation of hothead Nglish: Translation of hothead for Spanish speakers
Seen and Heard
What made you want to look up hothead? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
