hot adv.
1. ardently, eagerly, violently, severely, angrily.
| [ | ![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | London Prodigal D: I see this matter is hotly carried, But ile labour to disswade him from it]. |
| ‘Wellington’s Victory’ in Wellington’s Laurels 2: When the British came after so hot, / The French s--t their breeches with quaking. | |
| Men of Character I 191: [They] remaining silent on the perils they encountered, return with Jack Runnymede, still hot upon the game, to London. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 164: ’Way he’d go, and I arter – hot as h-ll, too. | |
| ‘Captain Jones’ Victory’ in Jack Tar’s Songster 102: Our shot flew so hot that they could not stand us long. | |
| Little Ragamuffin 11: You do let her have it awfully hot sometimes, Jim. | |
![[Ind]](/static/img/flags/ind.png "India") | Lays of Ind (1905) 120: ‘I gave it ‘em hot’. | |
| ‘’Arry on the Turf’ in Punch 29 Nov. 297/1: The thing looked a moral, my boy, and I put on the stuff pooty ’ot. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Sept. 5/2: Shakey, take a fader’s plessing, / Take it, for you ket it sheap, / Go in hot for making money, / Go in for to make a heap. | |
| Sporting Times 17 Apr. 2/2: Lord Hartington has ‘napped it hot’ for having gone on the same platform as Lord Salisbury. | |
| ‘Mashed by a Marchioness’ in Mr. Punch’s Model Music Hall 32: She spotted me in ’alf a jiff, and chaffed me precious hot! | |
| Truth (Sydney) 10 Jan. 5/3: A bad half-sov. from a gent, my eye, that’s coming it pretty hot. | |
| ‘Chimmie Fadden’s Fun’ 9 Feb. [synd. col.] ‘If you interrupt me so hot I will lose me bearings’. | |
| Boys Of The Empire 23 Oct. 34: We shall be in for it uncommon hot. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Sept. 12/3: Have you noticed that even young, unthinking girls are hot against second marriages? | |
| ‘The Comprehension of Private Copper’ in Traffics and Discoveries 170: Old Jerrold’s givin’ it you ’ot. You’re the uneducated ’ireling of a callous aristocracy. | |
| Leader of the Lower School 165: ‘Oh, do let me speak! I’ll give it them hot!’ . | |
| Sport (Adelaide) 31 Jan. 10/1: Schwartz is going pretty hot at the Freeling Hospital. He is seen out with the nurses pretty often . | |
| Gay-cat 189: The shacks must ’a’ passed yer by, they was so hot arter me. | |
| Sun (Sydney) 17 Aug. 7/6: At the police station Kinman said, ‘I’ll take what is coming to me as far as the ‘bust’ is concerned, but don’t go too hot on the gun stuff.’ . | |
| (con. 1920s) Judgement Day in Studs Lonigan (1936) 725: My old man and old lady weren’t any more hot on the idea than yours. | |
| Seraph on the Suwanee (1995) 657: He pitched into Dessie hot and heavy. | |
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | Lonely Londoners 138: If things open up hot I outing off fast. | |
| ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 102: I just sit quiet till she forget what she talking bout because if I make any sound she quick to fire me a box hot-hot. | |
| Campus Sl. Sept. 4: hot – attracted to and in pursuit of: I’m hot after him. | |
| Love Is a Racket 116: Soon as I got my thirty thousand. Maybe fifty, or sixty if Nellis was playing hot. |
2. well, much.
| This Is New York 26 Apr. [synd. col.] Harlem’s ‘hot’ spots are not doing so hot. | |
| Low Company 82: Hell, I don’t like the idea so hot, either. | |
| Blackboard Jungle 295: He can’t read so hot, Mr Dadier. | |
| Hustler 33: I didn’t like her too hot, but I guess she was all right. | |
| Blood Brothers 63: Albert didn’t do so hot. | |
| It (1987) 243: The dam wasn’t working so hot anyway. | |
| Native Tongue 49: You don’t listen so hot. |
3. of gambling, successfully.
| Erections, Ejaculations etc. 89: You know how it is with horseplayers, you hit it hot and you think it’s all over. |
4. (US) immediately, without hesitation.
| On the Bro’d 227: ‘I needed to drop that shit [i.e. a relationship] and drop it hot, for real’. |
In compounds
see separate entry.
see hot foot v.
In phrases
see under cop it v.
1. to be punished (lit. or fig.) severely.
 | Fast Life 54: The craters, of course, caught it hot, and many had the sack [F&H]. | |
| Wild Boys of London I 7/1: He’d a got it hot, only it happens that another peeler sees all about it, and puts in a good word. | |
| Five Years’ Penal Servitude 287: [He] had been guilty of bigamy, and to such a degree that he ‘got it hot’ for such a crime — five years. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 22 Jan. 182/1: The Star is to get it hot at Lingard’s benefit tonight. Roll up all of you. | |
| ‘The Troubadour’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 30: They gets it pretty hot, / The maidens what we cotch. | |
| Autobiog. of a Gipsey 100: He got it hot and heavy ’bout the head. | |
| Truth (Sydney) 11 Nov. 6/3: I’d like that Truth to get it hot, / And catch it every day. | |
| Wild Tribes of London in Illus. Police News 15 Feb. 12/2: ‘I fancy Bendigo will get it pretty hot’. | |
| diary 10 Aug. 🌐 Our fellows got it pretty heavy in one corner, but Johny Turk got it hot too. | |
| Human Side of Crook and Convict Life 289: When they do get into the Courts, though, they get it hot! | |
| Derby Dly Teleg. 9 Apr. 12/5: [headline] Raiders Get It Hot at Home. |
2. to be scolded with great venom.
| Duke’s Children (1954) 378: She’ll get it hot and heavy before she has done. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Mar. 13/2: Wonder if he’ll get as much knocking about in Egypt as he used to give us at school-drill? Shouldn’t be surprised if he did; tho’ I don’t know, we used to get it precious hot sometimes when we didn’t march in time. | |
| ‘Mitchell’s Jobs’ in Roderick (1972) 148: He got it hot from his wife [...] for being in that beastly, drunken state in the main street in the middle of the day. | |
| My Brilliant Career 312: I got it hot. Had I committed an act of premeditated villainy I could not have received more lecturing. |
1. to castigate severely.
| Black-Eyed Beauty 46: If Nathan excused him for a couple of nights, and kept quiet, away from Matty, ‘she gave it him hot’ the next time they met. | |
| Tag, Rag & Co. 7: You may guess what they thought of it by giving it me so hot. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 27 Oct. 18/2: [T]he proprietor frankly invites his writers to dismiss all thought of libel laws and ‘give it hot’ to everybody who deserves it. | |
| Gloucs. Echo 17 Nov. 1/7: Give it ’em Hot. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Aberdeen jrnl 26 Feb. 1/5: [headline] Braved Cold to Give It Hot to Attlee. |
2. to attack and/or punish severely.
| Wild Boys of London I 107/2: They was too strict, sir,—used to wallop me [...] Let me have it hot with the cane; and sometimes a spank in the chops. | |
| ‘’Arry to the Front!’ in Punch 9 Mar. 100/2: That Bear is in want of a basting / [...] / He’s in for a larrup, that’s clear, and I ’ope we shall give it ’im ’ot. | |
| ‘’Arry on a Jury’ in Punch 15 Apr. 177/2: There was one Jew chap let hoff I should like to ’ave given it ’ot to. | |
| Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 24 May 28/2: This was ‘givin’ it ’em ’ot,’ a local critic remarked. | |
| ‘The English Way’ in Awfully Big Adventure (1919) 255: Give it to ’em hot and strong! |