hot
verb
hotted; hotting; hots
chiefly Southern US, south Midland US, and British
: heat, warm
He took her up her supper, saying, "I've hotted the soup, and I found the chicken."—
Mrs. Henry Dudeney (Alice Louisa Dudenay)
—usually used with upMrs. Henry Dudeney (Alice Louisa Dudenay)hotted up the kettle
… he was sitting by the fire hotting up some of his cider in a saucepan; this he was taking with rosemary to cure his cold.—Fred Archer
see also hot up
Fred ArcherExamples of hot in a Sentence
with a silky Southern drawl, the waitress asked, "Want me to hot up that pie?"
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—Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 29 Aug. 2025
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—Samantha Husted, Charlotte Observer, 18 June 2025
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Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 29 Aug. 2025
Davis describes the crowd to be a mix of families with children, Bank of America executives grabbing lunch and bikers hot off a good ride.
—Samantha Husted, Charlotte Observer, 18 June 2025
After another pep talk from Khalil (good friend alert!), Mavis hots herself up and goes in for the meeting, but then refuses to work with Jacque on principle and strides right out.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 July 2023
So, she hot glued them to a piece of twine and strung it across the ceiling.
—Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 24 Dec. 2019
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“Hot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hot. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
Copy CitationMedical Definition
hot
adjective
hotter; hottest
1
a
: having a relatively high temperature
b
: capable of giving a sensation of heat or of burning, searing, or scalding
c
: having heat in a degree exceeding normal body heat
2
a
: radioactive
especially
: exhibiting a relatively great amount of radioactivity when subjected to radionuclide scanning
b
: dealing with radioactive material
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